CReating a boot Leopard install drive from a dvd
Hi people
I use a MacBook Pro 17 Core2 and i want to be able to install Leopard from my Hard Drive instead of a DVD. Now i made a DMG file of the DVD, verified and all., But when i try to RESTORE the Leopard Image to the drive with Disk Utilities i get error 2 or 16. I am using a Firewire 320GB HD. Can anyone advise a step by step way to get this done so i can Boot "Leopard installer" from my external HD? Cheers |
I think you'd just use "Backup - all files" from the DVD to a volume on your drive, but as I recall recent DVDs have complained that they need to run from the 'original media'.
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i only have the DMG file here, any ideas?
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You could try opening the DMG and copying from its volume to the drive.
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ok how do you do this?
I am assuming i simply mount the DMG and then clone it to a HARD drive? |
That's right. Open the DMG, then select its volume in the source pop-up, the destination you want, and "Backup - all files" with Smart Update or Erase, then copy.
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you sure it will boot from the hard drive then?
When i tried last time it kept saying volume al ready mounted in the rror log. just asking at the moment i finally managed to restore the DMG file with "Disk Utility" by apple, saying copying blocks for the last 3 hours at 3 percent. ill try your method after, i just have a hard time understanding how it will work since the system needs to be blessed , some say in forums ( ifound goggling) |
SuperDuper blesses; that's what "Make bootable" is.
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thanks for your help so far, im stuck at Preparing your mac osx Install DVD for ages here, is there a problem with me using a 2.5 Firewire partition of 10GB?
I started fine with a 2.5 10GB partition of a USB drive too but i heard clunks and pulle dit out realizing it was stuck. Let me know if Fire wire is ok and if it takes longer Cheers |
Should be fine, perhaps you need to restart your Mac.
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Restarting did the trick
Finished in 13 minutes, no other applications running. I was hopin to again move even that image to the USB 2.5 drive, cuase its a 300GB and i want to make it a back up of my internal MacBook Pro files as well as a DVD close bt i get this error too now. | 06:43:37 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Repairing permissions on Mac OS X Install DVD | 06:43:38 AM | Info | Error detected (-9997) while verifying/repairing permissions disk disk2s2 Mac OS X Install DVD | 06:43:38 AM | Error | ****FAILED****: result=256 errno=22 (Unknown error: 0) Any advise would be appreciated. I am suspicious that my USB drive making strange noize means its bad :( |
Turn off permission repair.
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