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Installing Leopard From DMG

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As I wrote last night… Installing Leopard from [the ADC] disc image is anything but intuitive.

Ever heard of RTFM? Helps if there’s an FM to R. And, there isn’t, really. [EDIT: Actually, forthose who are obtaining Leopard via their ADC Select and Premier seeds... this process is nowdocumented in the readme text... However, itʹs NOT documented with pics.]

Here’s the blow by blow: If you have a dual layer DVD writer… Pass GO and collect $200.Otherwise, read on…

First things first. It is illegal to install the Leopard [server and] workstation OS you’ve come bythrough other than sanctioned means. For me, “sanctioned” meant renewing my Apple ADCSelect Membership and downloading the DMG Apple made available on their site. For othersthat meant obtaining the DVD at WWDC 06 [and 07]. If there are other legal methods… I’m notin the know. And, no, I won’t be sharing my DMG. Please, don’t ask.

However, I will be sharing an installation method Apple seems to have thus far neglected todisclose. [Which is now thoroughly documented with the official seedsʹ readme files albeitwithout the pics youʹll see here.]

PREPHave TWO blank partitions ready. One will be for the installer and the other will be where you

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install Leopard. [Double this if you intend to also load up Server.]

LET’S GO

With your disc image mounted, open the Disk Utility application (Applications -> Utilities).Click the Restore tab (see it near the top of the Disk Utility window? Just after First Aid,Erase and RAID…)Drag your DMG file from the list on the left of your Disk Utility window to the “Source”field.Then, drag the icon of the partition you want to put the installer on to the “Destination”field. Again, do this from the left pane of your Disk Utility window. If you try to do thisfrom the desktop (as I kept trying to do) you’re going to drive yourself bonkers.Click the “Erase Destination” check box so that it shows a check.I also skipped the Checksum. You might or might not want to do the same. Your call.Click Restore.Wait until done.

Once the above is complete you now have a bootable OSX Leopard Install partition.

All you have to do now is go to System Preferences -> Startup Disk and specify your bootpartition to be “Mac OS X Install DVD”.

Restart and prepare to install to your other blank partition (or, really, wherever you choose). [Itwarrants disclosing... some people have said (comments below) their mileage is poor with USBdrives... I canʹt say with any authority that USB drives donʹt work as startup volumes forLeopard... it would seem at the least they donʹt do the job well.]

BTW, this should work on ANY Mac OS install DMG. There’s no special voodoo magic justbecause it’s Leopard.

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hiohokaybye Says:

May 5, 2007 at 3:11 pmii tried this but didnt work… when i pressed restore it says i dont have the permission… andi’m using my ipod nano 8gb…. so anyone knows y?

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May 7, 2007 at 7:11 amYeah, hiohokaybye… It appears the USB ipods are no good for this purpose. My third genfirewire iPod works just fine… Not my video iPod though (which is USB just like yournano). So, there’s the problem.

Log in to Replyjimmie94 Says:

June 26, 2010 at 2:24 pmCan this work with a iso file… Please respond

Log in to ReplyGerald Buckley Says:

June 26, 2010 at 2:27 pmJimmie – As I’ve maintained from day one… my aim is not to encourage use of dmgfiles outside of the context it was offered in… mounting and installing a specificpre-release image which did NOT come with adequate instructions. Whether it worksunder certain circumstances is not mine to address. You might call Apple techsupport and see what they have to offer you. ~Gerald

Log in to Replyjimmie94 Says:

June 27, 2010 at 8:19 pmWhy do I get error 22 when I try to restore

Log in to Replymainpath Says:

June 23, 2007 at 4:52 amwouldn’t this work?select the dmg and then restore to an empty fw drive.and then click restore and let it copy all the files?then it should boot?

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gwhiz Says:

June 23, 2007 at 6:51 am@mainpath – You’re half correct. Your approach restores the INSTALLER. You still have toperform the install on a volume of some kind or other.

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Chris Says:

June 25, 2007 at 2:18 pmI have a 150gb firewire external, I partitioned it into two partitions. I followed the directionsexactly and when it tries to restart into the new partitioned leopard space, it doesn’t, andimmediately boots back into tiger. I have a powerbook g4 1.5gz 1gb ram.

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Log in to Replygwhiz Says:

June 25, 2007 at 2:30 pmHey Chris. Thanks for dropping in. You might try restarting holding the Option Key on yourkeyboard down at startup. That will force OSX to evaluate all available volumes for suitableblessed startup volumes.

If that fails you… revisit the ADC site and nab the installation instructions there. (I’mpresuming you have access to that site)

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mikael Says:

June 26, 2007 at 9:24 amHi Chris. I don’t succeed to make bootable partition no ma er what i try. I have intelprocessor, and i have made GUID partition on this external disk. It seems to be ok, but wheni boot it. It finds it and when i choose that, after 30 sec it will display “not allowed to park”sign and freezes.

Then i use disk utility to make DVD DL. That works be er, and start to install too. But afterabout 50% installed, i got error message. INSTALL FAILED! Mac OS X could not be installedon your computer. The installer could not validate the contents of the‘AdditionalSpeechVoices’ package.Is there a problem with the files of what? Any advise?

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gwhiz Says:

June 26, 2007 at 9:31 amMikael – Again, I’m going to presume you have the ORIGINAL dual layer DVD distributedat WWDC. (why you’d be creating another copy… I dunno)

That said, if you’re having problems with what you received from the WWDC I’d suggestyou contact the Apple Developer Connection folks and get a replacement (or wait for theDMG that is supposedly being released any time now to Select and Premier ADC members).

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jedimacfan Says:

July 5, 2007 at 8:32 amI could not get my DMG file burned correctly to a DL DVD. Made 2 coasters that mount anddisplay contents but will not boot. Weird. I ended up doing what you wrote above with anold skool 10 GB iPod and it worked like a champ.

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mx Says:

July 5, 2007 at 11:00 pmNice. Thanks.

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gwhiz Says:

July 6, 2007 at 6:46 pmThose older iPods are gold for a variety of reasons. Development being one of them.

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fergusonbk Says:

July 8, 2007 at 1:56 pmI just tried this process many times with a SW usb hardrive, does this simply not work withusb? I was able to partition the external drive and restore the dmg file to one of thepartitions, but startup disk won’t recognize anything to reboot from. I have tried manydifferent variations of the install, and now seem to think it has to be the usb drive not beingrecognized as a bootable drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I am running on a g412 inch powerbook, 1.5ghz 1gb ram.

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gwhiz Says:

July 8, 2007 at 2:46 pmferguson… Sorry to hear your troubles. USB is notoriously fickle as startup volume for OSX.Suggest FireWire if available or dual layer DVD.

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Leopard and USB As Startup Volume « gWHIZ Says:

July 8, 2007 at 9:33 pm[...] said, There have been enough people asking in my other topic “Installing Leopard fromDMG” why it won’t work with their USB drive. I don’t know the full technical answer to [...]

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Dodolamote Says:

July 10, 2007 at 9:23 amI don’t understand, I have do the exact same thing then you and it’s doesn’t work.I have partitioned my second HD in 3 part… It’s the reason why ?

So when I try to install, the instalation sais to me : Error, no autorization to do that or this. Orhave a problem with the Applenew speech etc.

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gwhiz Says:

July 10, 2007 at 1:21 pm@Dodolamote, I also just installed 9A466 and it goes a bit differently than my previousexperience. I’ll post a bit more detailed posting later in the day on what I think might be abe er method given the experience I just had.

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Ping! » Divide et impera Says:

July 12, 2007 at 8:46 pm

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Log in to Replycr4nky Says:

July 13, 2007 at 8:24 amHey I’ve got one big problem. I need to know if you can use this RESTORE thing on normalpartitions? I don’t have a firewire external harddrive… and I haven’t a dual layer writer…Please help me!

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gwhiz Says:

July 13, 2007 at 10:35 amCr4nky… Sorry, no help to be had (by me anyway). You certainly could phone ADC and useone of your incidents to get it resolved… This goes straight to the one major gripe I havewith Apple…and that is our hands are tied when it comes to ge ing help from our fellowdevelopers. We NEED a sanctioned place to have these kinds of Q&A sessions ads paid upApple Developers.

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bitmap Says:

August 21, 2007 at 11:47 pmso, I tried to install first time, from a USB device with my DMG partitioned copy. When Itloads the installer and it lets me choose my drive, I do that but it sits at the “calculating howmuch time” screen for a few minutes, then it crashes says an error contact manufacturer, Ireboot, and it loads back to 10.4 no problem, just takes a few minutes. I reboot and try againand since then I have not been able to see the mac HD in the drive selection window.Currently a empting to repair my main DRive from the original DVD media for 10.4.

suggestions?

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gwhiz Says:

August 22, 2007 at 3:28 pm@bitmap… seriously sorry for your pain. I’m not completely sure about what I’m going tooffer up as advice… But, USB seems to have some bad juju when it comes to a startup devicefor Leopard. Don’t take me to the bank on that. But, it just seems Apple’s approach to USB asstartup volume is kinda wonky.

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Sco Says:

September 8, 2007 at 4:29 amI downloaded the DMG from ADC site and don’t hav e a DL writer.. however I readsomewhere that if you use CarbonCopyCloner to copy the DMG to a FW drive (does notneed to be erased) and tick the checkbox “make bootable” it should work. I tried this, andwhen using force boot selection (option key at startup) it detected this FW bootable system,but when I hit enter to select it, it went to the big Apple and the spinning flower loading

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sign. and stayed like that for a long time. I went and had a shower, came back and it was stillspinning. any idea as to what is wrong with this? and also, is it possible to use Disk Utility’s“Restore” function without erasing the rest of the information on the external FW volume?


September 8, 2007 at 7:34 am@Sco – I have CCC but frankly never thought to use it in the manner you have described.All but the software update following 9a499 have required an erase and install. As I don’thave a need for a dual layer DVD burner just yet… I’m short on help there.

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Eric Says:

September 11, 2007 at 11:24 pmWhat format should the installer partition and the destination partition be in?

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gwhiz Says:

September 11, 2007 at 11:29 pm@Eric – Installer partition should probably be Journaled HFS. The destination partition will(typically) be limited to the acceptable choices. If memory serves (and it might not) this isgoing to be HFS, journaled HFS, and the case-sensitive (or not) versions for each.

Trust me. You get that far in the process with a valid DMG on hand… you’re home free.

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Geiri Says:

September 15, 2007 at 10:33 amHi,

I just installed Leopard 9a527 .. I have an old firewire iPod and restored the DMG onto theipod (and I ereased the ipod disk) .. I went through the installation, upgrading tiger toleopard (I backed up my tiger files if anything should go wrong) and everything went assupposed to.

Now when I restarted after ge in “Installation succsessful” my macbook boots fine and thenthere’s the blue screen which usually comes for a short time but it’s stuck on the blue screennow and still after probarbly 20 minutes.. Should I keep waiting ? The ipod is still connectedto the computer, should I disconnect it ?

Thanks

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gwhiz Says:

September 15, 2007 at 11:42 am@Geiri – did it ever boot off the iPod before? Even once?

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Meschugge Says:

September 24, 2007 at 2:11 pmI’ve got the exactly same problem as Geiri…same build (9a527) on a Macbook Pro, installedwith a DL DVD

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djdarlek Says:

September 28, 2007 at 12:36 pmI have same prob as Geiri and Meschugge but with the latest Leopard beta, went through thewhole install without a hitch, rebooted and now it gets stuck on a blue screen with a mousecursor. Highly irritating! ;(

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gwhiz Says:

September 28, 2007 at 4:50 pmAre you folks installing the images DIRECTLY from the ADC site as downloaded? If so, callADC, they’ll help you. If not… Really sorry for your troubles. Fortunately, it won’t be longnow.

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BAsil Says:

October 13, 2007 at 6:54 amTRYING TO RESORE LEOPAED DMG FILE I SEE You must authenticate in order to restore

what is this and what the solution will be

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vertual4 Says:

October 14, 2007 at 12:52 pminstalled WWDC copy of leopard 9a527 and installed fine, restarted and now get blue screenwith single mouse cursor after grey apple and spin wheel underneath, cannot figure outwhat the problem is and am no longer in the u.s. to make phone calls to ADC help, washoping a solution would be available ? aside from reinstalling tiger 10.4, thanks

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gwhiz Says:

October 14, 2007 at 1:12 pm9A527 wasn’t distributed at WWDC… Is it possible you have the wrong seed#? It is entirelypossible the WWDC seed has expired. Although, I think that’s more the seed registrationnumber than anything else.

Are you launching from an internal drive or external? If external, is it firewire or USB?

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October 16, 2007 at 2:08 amHi. Just want to know if I can try to install Leopard alongside Tiger (in order to keep Tigerworking if there’s a problem …).

I want to erase Vista partition created with BootCamp and use it to install Leo on, using USBhard drive or a part of if to mount DMG.

Is this possible ?

Thanks and sorry for my probably poor english.

Log in to ReplyMoNoXIdE Says:

October 18, 2007 at 5:05 pmHi. I would like to know if you can install leopard but on an internal hd?

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anders_b Says:

October 19, 2007 at 6:19 pmyep that works fine..

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MoNoXIdE Says:

October 20, 2007 at 12:35 pmyeah but how do you do it with this same process?

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Blake Says:

October 23, 2007 at 8:04 pmI am wondering the same thing. How do I do this if I want Leopard to just overtake myentire system.

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gwhiz Says:

October 23, 2007 at 9:11 pm@Blake – In the developer RTF all the Leoaprd seeds (that I can recall anyway) have statedthey’re not meant for “updating” from Tiger to Leopard. That comes on Friday with the GMrelease.

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sco Says:

October 23, 2007 at 10:01 pmhow do we even create new partitions in osx?

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October 23, 2007 at 10:12 pm@sco – Use Disk Utility (found in your Utilities folder provided it’s not been moved fromits original place on OSX). The fact you’ve asked makes me want to warn you… please, doNOT a empt to partition ANYTHING with Disk Utility that isn’t already backed upsomeplace else. This is a destructive process and will lead to lost files.

Yes, there are some third party OSX tools out there which will let you partition an existingdrive without losing anything other than space on your drive. That’s outside this particulardiscussion and well beyond my personal experience. I’ll leave that one to more adventuroussouls.

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October 23, 2007 at 10:31 pmI thought it had something to do with disk utility, but when I look all I see are first aid, erase,raid, and restore. I see I can create images etc but nothing about making a partition. I look atthe raid option, but I don’t want to make a raid partition. I just want a regular partitioncorrect? Is there something I am missing here? Can you please explain what I need to doexactly with the se ings I need to select.

Yes, I have backed up everything important. Thanks for your help.

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gwhiz Says:

October 23, 2007 at 10:51 pmThe best bet is to open Disk Utility and go to the help menu, select Disk Utility Help (orpress cmd-?) and search on “partition”. It gives you the blow by blow (copied and pastedbelow for convenience):

Partitioning a disk divides it into sections, called “volumes.” Each volume works like aseparate disk. For example, you can create several smaller volumes that are easier to back upthan one large disk.

This page describes how to partition a disk that you will not use to start up your computer.If you will be installing Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X on any of this disk’s volumes, click the linkbelow and follow its directions.

Partitioning a disk erases all the files on the disk. If you have any files on the disk you wantto save, be sure to copy them to another disk before you partition the disk.

If you’re partitioning an external hard disk, make sure it is connected to your computer.In Disk Utility, select the disk that you want to partition in the list.Click Partition.Choose the number of partitions from the Volume Scheme pop-up menu.Click each partition and type a name for it, choose a format, and type a size. You can alsodrag the divider between the partitions to change their sizes. If a partition’s name has anasterisk beside it, it’s shown larger than its actual size in order to display its name legibly.If you will use the drive on a Windows computer, click Options and choose the Master BootRecord partition scheme (also know as fdisk). It might be called the PC partition scheme.Click the Partition bu on, and then click Partition again.

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Log in to Replysco Says:

October 23, 2007 at 11:09 pmUgh this isn’t working for me. I’ll just pick up a DL disk tomorrow and burn it. thanksanyway.

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gwhiz Says:

October 23, 2007 at 11:19 pmAny time sco . Good luck with it and hope you’ll post back after a successful install.

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WorX Says:

October 24, 2007 at 2:26 amI wonder if Apple will release a 2-DVD single layer version for people not having dual-layerDVDs…

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gwhiz Says:

October 24, 2007 at 5:52 am@WorX – I thought the same thing. Turns out recent machines (still not clear on how recent)can READ dual-layer DVDs just fine but cannot write to them without a special drive forthat purpose.

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Kenneth Says:

October 24, 2007 at 10:03 amI initially had problems with this install using my iPod, however I remembered that I haveone of those nifty 3rd party sync cables with both USB and FireWire connectors … Iswitched to FireWire, followed the excellent instructions (by the way, iTunes must be closedor you’ll get the permission error), and the install ran perfectly.

Kenneth

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Felix Says:

October 24, 2007 at 10:55 amHey thanks for the great post. It’s nice to find all of this info in one place. I do have a quickquestions however. This info might be somewhere here or somewhere else but I can’t seemto find it myself. Do you need to do the same procedure if you were going to simply do anUpdate/Install as opposed to a fresh install? Or can you simply update/upgrade from amounted DMG and that’s it? I’m just inundated with information and can’t come to aconclusion myself. Thanks in advance, and again for the post!

Felix

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October 24, 2007 at 11:03 am@Felix – The install seeds aren’t going to give you an update option from Tiger. The onlyoption is to install on a fresh volume. That said, the most recent seeds “should” haveallowed for an update… I just got into the habit of installing fresh each round.

When the GM is sold this Friday night… there WILL be an update option. Go a be.

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Liski Says:

October 24, 2007 at 4:03 pmDo I just burn the .dmg file a DL DVD on my PC and just boot from it on my friends Mac?

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Dude Says:

October 25, 2007 at 7:46 pmGood post, everything worked perfectly on my MacBook and old USB drive. I did anupgrade instead of a complete clean install.

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Victor Costan Says:

October 25, 2007 at 9:25 pmInstalling off an USB drive worked for me, using the ideas above. Thanks!

How I did it > repartition the USB drive to have 1 partition, HFS+ Journal case-insensitive(the default option). Restore the .dmg to that, be sure to check Erase. Might want to uncheckChecksum so you don’t wait forever.

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gwhiz Says:

October 25, 2007 at 9:29 pm@Victor – I’ve used the unchecked Checksum method a few times with mostly good results.However, I’ve also been stung by a bad .dmg file. Really kind of depends on the person andhow much spare time they have.

In 24 hours it won’t much ma er anyway.

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Hedi Says:

October 26, 2007 at 8:36 amHi…I have a dead SuperDrive on my iMac G5 and I do have an external Dual Layer DVD burner,I was wondering if it was possible to install Leopard from that drive.

Thanks

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Log in to ReplyJustin E. Boles Says:

October 26, 2007 at 9:26 amLets clear this up!!!

USB IS NOT BOOTABLE ON POWERPCUSB IS NOT BOOTABLE ON POWERPCUSB IS NOT BOOTABLE ON POWERPCUSB IS NOT BOOTABLE ON POWERPCUSB IS NOT BOOTABLE ON POWERPC

Now that has go en your a ention, only FireWire or internal HD will boot a PowerPC(iBook/PowerBook)

USB, FireWire, Internal, and eSATA will boot on a MacBook/MacBook Pro

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gwhiz Says:

October 26, 2007 at 11:19 am@Justin – No shouting in my house. I think we got your point.

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Anji/realm64 Says:

October 26, 2007 at 7:05 pmI’ve just successfully installed leopard.

1) Use bootcamp to setup a partition of ~10gb. I did install XP to that partition, but it may notbe required. If you try and do anything to it with disc utils at this point, it won’t let you.2) Run a tiger install cd, and try to install to the partition you created. It failed. The failuremay always happen, I don’t know.3) Reboot back into tiger, and disk utils will now let you write to the partition you created.Restore the leopard .dmg to that partition.4) Boot the computer from the newly created partition that you restored the leopard imageto.5) Install leopard.

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adrian Says:

October 27, 2007 at 4:21 amjust writing to report that i had no problem installing the .dmg from a USB-disk.

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Alex Says:

October 27, 2007 at 11:18 amCan you do it on Power Book G4 on internal drive?

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October 27, 2007 at 2:27 pmHello!I didn’t do it just as you did it. though I have a question. See I wanted to more upgrade fromTiger to Leopard. On the internal harddrive, Macintosh HD.But when I boot from the external partition I have made I do not get the Macintosh HD as achoice whereto install Leopard.

Why can’t I install Leopard over Tiger? And how should I do if I want to do this kind ofupgrade?

Log in to ReplyMike Says:

October 27, 2007 at 8:47 pmok here’s my install method:

1. After unrar’ing the files, checksum it.2. Then connect your ipod, quit iTunes bc it will give an error msg3. Open Disk Utility, select the ipod, erase everything

Now here’s where I had problems and the only way I found it to work was to restore from anetworked computer.

Gigabit EthernetPC: ip = 192.168.0.10 / 255.255.255.0 / no gateway / no dnsMAC: ip = 192.168.0.11 / 255.255.255.0 / no gateway/ no dns

Apple + K … smb://192.168.0.10 and select the shared folder

now back to the disk utility, click on “restore” and then choose the image file over the sharednetwork

Destination is the Ipod, mine happened to be a 4th gen 20gig (* USING FIREWIRE *)

then check erase data option below the destination… and then submit or erase or what everthe go bu on is…

Then you can simply boot to the firewire drive by going to your preferences on the dock,and then the startup disk icon… and there select the MAC OSX 10.5 option which is youripod. then click the restart bu on on that screen and now your booting up to the leopardinstall.. I’ve heard people have trouble with the upgrade option so I did a full install underthe options bu on… worked flawlessly!

Took me 15 mins for the transfer and install, and 40 mins for the install of leopard.

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Log in to ReplyJDogg Says:

October 27, 2007 at 11:37 pmThis works PERFECT, I’ts so fast, it took about 20 mins on my Power mac G4 THANK YOU!!

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BradG Says:

October 28, 2007 at 7:44 amI have a quick question.

I want to make the destination my Mac Hardrive.

But, in the process if I want to do that I need to erase my entire HD, which is something I donot want to do.

Is it possible that I can make the destination my HD and not erase it?

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doctajay Says:

October 28, 2007 at 8:52 amIt worked for me too! I have a Intel MBP, with a fireware Iomega external HDD. The longestpart of the intall was the pre-backup stage. I think installing off of firewire is faster thaninstalling from the DVD! Anyway, thanks for the write up!

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Dimaiovu Says:

October 28, 2007 at 9:05 amDear all,What I have:1. Macbook, does not read DVD-DL, does not write DVDs, but reads CDs2. iPod Video, 5th generation late 2006, 30gb, USB, cannot Partition under GUID PartitionTable

Now I want to install a beta of Leo, I have a .DMG on my macbook, size ~ 6gb

Anji/realm64 mentioned before an option how to install it using BootCamp, but I want toknow if afterwards I can work on it and use a lot of programs and maybe delete the tigerafter a while and work only on Leo. What is good and bad using this way of install?

Also I was reading how to install it from HD if you have 2 partitions. I have only one. Howcan I create a second one? Using iPartition? Do you recommend this program? And how canI make a bootable CD with this iPartition?And do you think this is a good idea to install it like this?

As you may know I cannot use my iPod to restore the image of Leo, but maybe if you knowany more ways how can i do that, PLEASE TELL ME because I am very desperate. Thanks.

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October 28, 2007 at 9:18 amThanks for the guide. I just installed Leopard from my Ipod withough any problems at all. Ali le slower than normal perhaps, but otherwise fine!

Log in to ReplyJonahCoyote Says:

October 28, 2007 at 10:34 amIt worked for me using USB! Thanks for the tutorial.

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Kyle Says:

October 28, 2007 at 5:42 pmUSB IPOD install does work.

When you format the IPOD you need to select Guid Partition Table (under options) alsomake sure you are using MAC OXS Journaled. You don’t need to restore over a networkeither.

Here are the original instruction from MIKE!

“ok here’s my install method:

1. After unrar’ing the files, checksum it.2. Then connect your ipod, quit iTunes bc it will give an error msg3. Open Disk Utility, select the ipod, erase everything

Now here’s where I had problems and the only way I found it to work was to restore from anetworked computer.

Gigabit EthernetPC: ip = 192.168.0.10 / 255.255.255.0 / no gateway / no dnsMAC: ip = 192.168.0.11 / 255.255.255.0 / no gateway/ no dns

Apple + K … smb://192.168.0.10 and select the shared folder

now back to the disk utility, click on “restore” and then choose the image file over the sharednetwork

Destination is the Ipod, mine happened to be a 4th gen 20gig (* USING FIREWIRE *)

then check erase data option below the destination… and then submit or erase or what everthe go bu on is…

Then you can simply boot to the firewire drive by going to your preferences on the dock,and then the startup disk icon… and there select the MAC OSX 10.5 option which is youripod. then click the restart bu on on that screen and now your booting up to the leopardinstall.. I’ve heard people have trouble with the upgrade option so I did a full install underthe options bu on… worked flawlessly!

Took me 15 mins for the transfer and install, and 40 mins for the install of leopard.”

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Log in to Replyjmpdude Says:

October 28, 2007 at 9:35 pmThanks for the tip! I just followed the instructions at the very top of this site (after Idownloaded my copy of the Leopard user-install DVD .dmg file from the ADC site), and itworked fine. I wouldn’t have even bothered, though, had the .dmg file not been 6.66 (!) GBs.My DVD burner doesn’t do DL and I didn’t have any DL discs anyway. But I had several oldFirewire hard drives laying around.

Worked great. Thanks, again.

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Gator Says:

October 29, 2007 at 5:47 amStill no answer on how to install on internal hard drive?Gree , G.

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gwhiz Says:

October 29, 2007 at 6:02 am@Gator – Sorry about that. Weekend was packed and all I did was approve commentswithout posting much back in return. Sometimes other people answer before I can. Thatdidn’t happen this go around.

Installing on an internal is EASY if you have an external drive or a dual layer burner. Isuspect that you don’t have either of these… In which case I don’t know how to go aboutinstalling a new system from .DMG state on your current startup drive. Not so sure it caneven be done.

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gwhiz Says:

October 29, 2007 at 6:05 am@jmpdude, Murph, Murph, doctajay – Glad you guys got some use out of the posting.

As for the clever people out there ge ing this .DMG to install and run off USB iPod’s (seeabove if this interests you) all I can say is… COOL! Didn’t think it could be done and you’vegiven some people a new option. Thanks!

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Chava Says:

October 29, 2007 at 12:08 pmFor those having problems starting to copy the DMG to their ipods… i partitioned mine..and now its working… 8gb 2ndgen ipod nano…

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October 29, 2007 at 12:49 pmHi I just wanted to say that i followed your directions and it worked. Thanks.

Log in to ReplyT. Silvs Says:

October 29, 2007 at 4:50 pmYo so quick question:

If I have an external, can I do this method (boot off of the install partition) and then upgrademy internal harddrive from tiger to leopard?

And also if I have a dual-layer burner should I just burn a DVD and bypass all this junk?

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adil Says:

October 29, 2007 at 5:20 pmI installed using an external with usb last night and had absolutely no trouble. Just holddown the option key if you are having trouble booting up the ‘install partition’

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califalcon Says:

October 29, 2007 at 6:03 pmdunno if u guys found the solution for the USB drive install, however here it is just in case;

I just used carboncopy and used the function to do a block to block copy and i can boot andinstall fine on both of my macs, powerbook g4 and mac mini.

peace

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benjamin Says:

October 29, 2007 at 6:04 pmI tried restoring an old firewire hdd with the dmg and booting from it, but it kept crappingout with “4 minutes remaining” and it wouldn’t move any further for about an hour.

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Joseph Says:

October 29, 2007 at 8:08 pmFWIW, you can install and run Leopard to an external USB volume. It’s slower than theusual way, but once the installer is done Leopard will boot right into its first-run sequenceand you’ll be good to go. It’s a great way to check out how Leopard will run on your Macwithout touching the internal disk.

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Daniel Brusilovsky Says:

October 29, 2007 at 8:13 pmGreat article Gerald!

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Log in to ReplyInstalling OSX Leopard from a DMG file Says:

October 29, 2007 at 8:20 pm[...] I ran across a good how to on installing leopard from a DMG file which is helpful if youdon’t have a dual layer DVD burner. There are legal ways to obtain a copy of Leopard thatcomes in a .dmg file. These are spelled out in the how to. If you do have access to a duallayer DVD burner then just burn the stinkin’ image and install that way. This is notsomething an amateur should expect to do very easily. Read on for more details. [...]

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TwoTallSocks » Blog Archive » links for 2007-10-30 Says:

October 29, 2007 at 10:32 pm[...] Installing Leopard From DMG How to install Leopard with a .DMG file, not using aDVD. (tags: Apple howto) [...]

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Chad W Smith Says:

October 30, 2007 at 12:13 amGreat article – glad it survived the digg effect. Nice talking to you!

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webtuga Says:

October 30, 2007 at 3:10 amI have been done it with my iPod Video 30GB…

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Pati Says:

October 30, 2007 at 6:49 amJust installed leopard now mail won’t open.

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Carlos Cerna Says:

October 30, 2007 at 10:18 amI am trying this on a Macbook Pro. I had the .dmg file and converted it to iso using DiskUtility and the Mac OS X. I then burned it in a friends XP PC onto a DVD+R DL. I laterbooted it on my mac nad it booted fine. Started the install and the went fine. Verification wassuccesful but right after that told me Instalation Failed. “Found no software to instal”????Can u help??

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Installing Leopard via DMG « 0ddn1x: tricks with *nix Says:

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Log in to ReplyDandab Says:

October 30, 2007 at 12:30 pmhello…i have been trying really hard to get this to work but with no success. can somone tellme what i’m doing wrong?

What i did was use my internal HD in my macbook pro, partitioned it then did theprocedure above onto the partition. just to check it, i double clicked on the partitions, nownamed “Mac OSX Intall DVD”, and then i double clicked on the “Install Mac OS X”. Then amessage comes up saying, “The application ‘Install Mac OS X” cannot be used from thisvolume” Any suggestions as to fixing this? Thanks in advance.

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DamieN Says:

October 30, 2007 at 2:19 pmGood Show Mates.

I’m a Premium ADC member and being too proud to ask for tech support. Set off toaccomplish the task of updating my MBP to Leopard myself. I used Partitioned USB 2.030GB Portable HDD System With a Toshiba MK3006 Drive for the install. Obviously DiskUtility partitioned the drives in less than 5 minutes and I restored the .dmg to the Journaled14GB MAC OSX Partition. (other partition is Windows Files System, believe it doesn’tma er) Held “alt” while booting after the .dmg was successfully restored to the USB andInstalled. 30 Minutes including file backup.

Thanks again. Solid Work

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Serge Says:

October 30, 2007 at 4:07 pmMake a bootable LeoPartition on Time Machine’s backup drive and you get a full systemrecovery drive in your hands %) Cool! Thanks for the tip!

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Geoff Says:

October 30, 2007 at 11:33 pmHey guys, I just installed Leopard based on the following method. Everything is workingfine except the following…

– At startup, the navigation bar at the top of the screen takes a very long time to load– If I click on desktop (i.e. out of any applications) the mouse pinwheels and doesn’t stop– I cannot open the finder and access documents within the finder, but I can open worddocuments and the like through their respective programs.

Any thoughts on how I could get my find windows working again and how to get rid of thatannoying pinwheeling?

Cheers!

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Log in to ReplySco Parge Says:

October 31, 2007 at 6:07 pmAwesome, it worked like a charm for me! I had a 500GB external FW drive that I justreplaced the image onto.

The install went super smooth. The computer took a minute to boot the first time, probcompiling all the old system prefs into the new system. Now, I’m going to see if I can set thepartition size right so that I use the drive as a Time Machine drive AND 10.5 installer!

Thanks again for the helpful info.

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Jeff Says:

October 31, 2007 at 11:40 pmHi, I followed the outlined instructions and made a bootable partition on a firewire drive, setthe startup drive to that partition. When I restart, small folder with a question mark appears,then boots straight to my old tiger install. Tried booting while holding down option key withsame results. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Monkeyz weblog » MacOSX: Installer Leopard à partir d’une image .dmg Says:

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Eddie Says:

November 1, 2007 at 6:43 amIs there a way to UPGRADE your existing Tiger install with a Leopard DMG?

So if i had an external drive with the Leopard image restored onto it, and launched theinstaller from within Tiger on that drive, would my Mac reboot and update my Tiger installfrom the external drive’s Leopard image? IE can it see a Firewire HDD in exactly the sameway it sees a DVD-ROM?

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gwhiz Says:

November 1, 2007 at 7:12 am@Eddie – I’m not entirely sure what Apple has (or hasn’t) done since Leopard launched.Some people are saying their seeds have expired or some such. I’d say call the ADC and askthem to help unravel it.

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November 1, 2007 at 7:14 am@Jeff – Best I can offer is to call ADC. I suspect they might tell you is to download the 9A521image (which is identical to the GM release…) in the event you don’t want to shell out theretail $$ for it. Me? I was in line a the Apple Store and purchased it anyway and scored thenice new Leopard Tshirts (yeah, got two).

Log in to Replyhellfried Says:

November 1, 2007 at 7:34 ami have 2 FAT32 partitions on my usb external hard drive with nothing on them. howeverwhen i get to the disk utility page, i can drag and drop the leopard dmg to the source menubut when i try to drag one of the mounted disk to the destination menu, it does not allow meto do so. what kind of format should the partition be in?

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gwhiz Says:

November 1, 2007 at 7:36 am@hellfried – try HFS+ journaled. That’s worked for me.

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hellfried Says:

November 1, 2007 at 8:03 amok i managed to partition my external hard drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. iget to drag and drop it into the destination menu but when i hit restore i get an errormessage saying ‘you must authenticate in order to restore’. what is this??

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musick Says:

November 2, 2007 at 11:13 amJust got leopard installed with Anji/realm64′s method w/ bootcamp and the 10GB partition.

Running very smooth thanks.

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Macmini Says:

November 2, 2007 at 3:05 pmHi,

I tried upgrading my macmini to Leopard using the .dmg file. Since I didn’t have a DVD-RDL to do it the easy way (for me) so I copied the .dmg file to a LaCie 500 GB hdd and triedthe suggested way using disk utility. From here it went all wrong as I really didn’t knowwhat I was doing here, I should have gone for the easy and understandable way for me!!

I did not create any partitions on my mini or LaCie drive but just listed my mini hd as thedestination and the LaCie as the source and cliked restore (I did not tick off the erasedestination box). After this, I ended up with a blue screen (like the desktop design) and aftergiving the mac mini a hard reboot, it doesn’t go beyond the grey apple screen with rotating

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timer. I backed up all my files to the Lacie hdd but can’t see the Lacie on my XP laptop viaUSB either.

I only have a wireless keyboard and mouse and since they don’t power up before the Macboots, I can’t use them to enter safe mode either. I even tried inserting the OSX 10.4installation CD when powering up the Mac to see if this would trigger anything but noresponse but that this CD is now stuck and I don’t know how to eject this without workingkeyboard and mouse:(

Please can someone advise me where I should go from here.

Thanks!!!

Log in to ReplyMacmini Says:

November 2, 2007 at 3:14 pmForgot to mention that I didn’t specify the boot partition although I didn’t make one eitherbefore rebooting as at this stage I couldnt open System Preferences.

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Jon Says:

November 3, 2007 at 10:40 amHi,

Just wanted to say thanks for the tips everyone – I got Leopard installed from my 2nd GenNano 8Gb using these tips. It installed without issue and within an hour!

Thanks again!!!

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Boomouse Says:

November 4, 2007 at 9:08 amJust profuse thank yous to you. After an 8-day download, it was quite disconcerting to notbe able to create a bootable DVD from the dmg file. I have Leopard on order but releases inAsia are not until the end of Nov although it has been launched here. I restored to my 5.5Gipod and installed from that with no problems. It was one go on the archive and installoption.

Thank you.Muchisimas Gracias.Selamat DatangUmgoi-sai

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Log in to ReplyMarty Says:

November 5, 2007 at 2:09 pmYESSSSSS!!!Worked!Thx!

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Miguel Says:

November 6, 2007 at 11:36 pmThis works like a charm, don’t be confused with the dragging and dropping of the restoredestination.1. You CAN use a USB drive to do this2. when you follow the instructions above the trick is to you select the “Partition” not thedrive to restore.3. When you reboot to a empt to install, make sure you hold the OPTION key and selectUSB drive.

Thats my 2 cents

Thanks so much for the tip, works like a charm…

Good day to you sir!

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Alik Says:

November 7, 2007 at 12:23 amHi guyes,

After I concated the dmg, it didn’t mount. It says Illegal seek. Please help

PleaseThanks

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Tom Says:

November 8, 2007 at 2:41 pmHi,

Great directions. I got an error (16) restore failed, when I tried. Do you think theleopard.dmg file no good?

Thanks

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Chad Says:

November 9, 2007 at 9:05 pm– To upgrade OSX 10.4 on a iBook G4 and PowerMac G4 (both running Tiger 10.4) to

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Leopard 10.5 with only a DMG and USB drive –

- Download/Install: Carbon Copy Cloner at h p://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

- Copy the DMG of Leorad 10.5 to the system

- Connect a USB drive WITH external power source to the laptop

- Using Disk Utility: Erase the USB drive

- Open “Carbon Copy Cloner” and select the DMG of the 10.5 Leopard

- You will be cloning TO the USB drive

- Select “Use block-level copy” and “Erase drive”

- Click “Clone”

Once the clone is complete, reboot the Mac and perform the open-firmware changesmentioned here: h p://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20061017084322177 . Youshould then be able to install from the external USB drive like it was the actual DVD.

**NOTE** I do NOT endorse stealing software. I obtained my DMG from our AppleEnterprise License at work and downloaded it directly from them.

Once you see your new OS you will need to reset your firmware so it doesn’t try and bootfrom the USB drive anymore.

- Reboot the computer and press:Command-Option-P-RThis resets the firmware to the factory se ings.

Keep holding this until you hear three “Bongs”. Once you release, the Mac should bootnormally into your new OS!

ENJOY!!

Log in to ReplyPaul ASR Says:

November 10, 2007 at 6:30 pmI ruined my powerbook like a retard!……..I actualy did this. Disc utility>restore then i chosemy source ‘leopard DMG’ then i prceeded and chose my destination ‘this is the retarded bit’i chose my actual laptops harddrive and dident check the box erase destination. The resultis……….

Im left with a powerbook which cant start up and at first i was ge ing the no entry sign. Ithen conected my other powerbook via firewire with a os10 tiger disc and tried to restore myorginal powerbook with tiger. I have got rid of the no entry sign but have replaced it with amessage that says summint along the lines of ‘panic just left hanging’

If anyone could help me, I would be over the hacintosh moon!

Thanx in advance.

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Log in to ReplyWorX Says:

November 12, 2007 at 1:30 am“I ruined my powerbook like a retard!……..I actualy did this. Disc utility>restore then ichose my source ‘leopard DMG’ then i prceeded and chose my destination ‘this is theretarded bit’ i chose my actual laptops harddrive and dident check the box erase destination.The result is……….”

Just erase before restoring and it will work fine. Otherwise restore PRAM. Let us know.Good luck.

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champ123 Says:

November 12, 2007 at 9:50 ami have a 5th generation 30gb ipod classic. i was trying to test and see if i can erase my ipodthrough disk utility (volume format: mac os extended journaled). when i click erase, apop-up comes saying “Erasing a volume will destroy all information on thevolume…WARNING: This partition is on an iPod. Erasing the iPod partition will disablesome of the iPod functionality.” Does this mean that it will destroy my ipod?? i dont mind ifall the music/movies/etc is lost. has anyone else tried this and resulted in a dead ipod??

also, if this works, do i erase the ipod first, then restore the leopard .dmg to the ipod? if so,after i do that, do i just install through the ipod?

**on another note, does anyone know where to find dl dvd 8.5gb in stores??? they’re allonline but i cant find it anywhere actually IN the store (radio shack, best buy, circuit city,…). they all sell like 25 of them for 40 bucks. i only need the ones that have like a 3 pack.

thanks!!!

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champ123 Says:

November 12, 2007 at 10:03 amsorry that was erasing the ipod volume. however, erasing the disk (the orange icon above theipod icon) gives me this message: WARNING: This disk is an iPod. Erasing an iPod willdisable some of the iPod functionality. Again, same question: will erasing result in a deadipod?

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thegreatest Says:

November 13, 2007 at 1:49 pmHi!I get an error message when trying to restore the leopard image to a clean USB drive. It says“An error (2) occurred while copying. (No such file or directory)”

Anyone know why this happens? Have no DVD-DL drive:S

thanks!

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Log in to ReplySpencer Says:

November 13, 2007 at 4:41 pmWhen you click erase destination does that erase everything on your hard drive? I want toget this done but I’m apprehensive because I don’t want everything to get erased, cananyone help?

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Henry Says:

November 14, 2007 at 7:04 amI completely f’ed my box. I’ve got a macbook pro, w/ no native DL DVD-R. My PC, however,has a Dl burner. I moved the .dmg to the PC, and burned it. as .dmg. couldn’t find any PCtools to convert .dmg to .ISO (which is the ultimate goal as I would like a boot-able LeopardDisk.) From the DVD, i restored the dmg to my ***MAIN PARTITION*** ouch!!! :*(

What was I thinking?! I’m not going to get into it. Long story!

How can i recover from restoring Leopard onto my main partition? The Macbook hangs atthe apple logo, w/ the status under it in a loop.

Could someone please post a link to recovery? or any thorough techniques to get tiger backup?

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champ123 Says:

November 15, 2007 at 12:18 pm…lots of questions…could someone help with all the above questions please thanks

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gwhiz Says:

November 15, 2007 at 12:34 pm@champ123 – The answers you’re looking for are “out three”. I can’t be the one to answermost of them as it appears the OS is being installed from DMGs picked up someplace otherthan sanctioned sources. I’m not going to jeaopardize my ADC membership for that cause.Sorry.

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Rick Says:

November 15, 2007 at 9:02 pmI am unable to format my iPod (5th generation late 2006) with a GUID partition table withDisk Utility on Tiger (10.4.11).

When I a empt the partition, I receive an error stating Invalid Argument. A video onYouTube, made by an end user having the same problem that I am describing can be foundhere.

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Installing Leopard Using an iPod:

h p://nickganga.com/?p=217

Video made by Blog Owner(?)

h p://nickganga.com/?p=221

Log in to Replymike Says:

November 17, 2007 at 9:40 amI think I will give this a miss and just buy it tomorrow.

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Rene Says:

November 17, 2007 at 10:50 amhey guys…….ok so here is step by step how i got my leopard to install on my MacBook Prowith my 30 Gig Ipod (usb). Nothing special about what i did but I will go step my step justso everyone can see if they missed a step. Again nothing fancy…I just followed along witheveryones ideas.

1. Open Disk Utility2. Click the ipod drive on the left (if it is not visible then u must open itunes with ur ipodconnected. click on the ipod on the left panel and in the main screen there should be anoption that says..”make device external usable” or something along those lines. This makesyour ipod visible to your make instead of only to itunes.3. While ipod is selected on disk utility, click partition. Then there is a pull down…click 2partitions as G-Whiz mentioned before. Click the first partion still in the same screen andname it leopard and name the 2nd one blank.4. After this click the newly named “blank” partition under ur ipod to highlight it.5. Click restore6. Drag your dmg to source7. Drag the “blank” partition to destination8. Click Erase source9. Click Skip Check sums

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10. Click Restore…U might get a warning that ur ipod will be erased but ur itunes canrestore ur ipod later on.11. After about ten mins or so it should be copied and probably will try to open and get u toinstall. Ignore this and close the window…but do not eject the partition.12. Click the Systems Panel…looks like a light switch and go to Start up Disk13. It searches for all avaiable drives…one should say leopard dvd install or something likethat. That is the new partition u made. High light the partition14. Click the restart bu on underneath15. Let your mac restart……do not hold any bu on down or anything. If you look at ur ipoda li le flower or loading circle should appear in the top left as if your ipod is thinking16. Hopefully if done correctly then after 5-6 mins of an apple screen your mac will start toload up as normal with the blue screen instead of gray but then jump right into the installprocess.17. Just sit back and wait…..can take up to 20 min…..or a bit longer…..i have a 2.2 gig ramsuper bad ass Mac pro and it took this long for me. Be patient. USB does work.

Hope this was helpful. Should be noted that I tried one other trick before this and not sure ifit helped but I downloaded monoligual (google it to download) and checked all languagesexcept english to erase because I didn’t want leopard ge ing hung up on trying to updatelanguages that i didn’t need. So it might be something to try.

Log in to ReplyRene Says:

November 17, 2007 at 11:11 amOne Last li le comment……once you have finished installing and it says torestart…..disconnect ur ipod.

The initial startup will take sometime…..I had to hard restart my mac…..but after it starts upleopard will be working fine.

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PWK Says:

November 17, 2007 at 12:28 pmI followed the instructions and it worked.

I had no blank DL DVD’s so I pulled out the old 40gb USB external and partitioned that.

After using the disk utility, I restarted the machine and it did the install. It took about 30mins. A DVD would’ve been faster. So far, it works flawlessly and the only thing I neededwas to do some updates.

The OSX version I used was: 10.5 (9B18)

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Sjaak Says:

November 20, 2007 at 10:04 amI’ve tried 3 different dmg images with the final version of Leopard (which are in factdownloaded via my PC and then copied to the Mac) so far and each and everyone gives achecksum error just before it is finished checking, even when I just double click them (and

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the Apple disk utility is checking them before mounting) the checksum error comes up.

I see a couple of posts here where people advise to ‘unckeck’ or ‘skip’ the checksums.Is this really a good idea? And is there anything I do wrong?Thnx

Log in to ReplyRene Says:

November 20, 2007 at 11:00 amHey Sjaak………just follow my instructions above as close as possible…..every step….and itshould work. Nothing horrible…..knock on wood…..will happen to your computer…….

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Josh Says:

November 21, 2007 at 1:46 pmok, here goes, im relatively new to apples and i have recently obtained a powermac g4 froma business going under. the first time i turned it on they apparently had a password set so icant access the damn thing at all. now i have already got the leopard dmg on my pc. i justwant to erase the mac completely and start fresh with nothing but leo, and i have no ideahow to do this,

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Sjaak Says:

November 22, 2007 at 12:55 amOK, to come back on my question and you answer from yesterday:unchecking the ‘skip checksum’ option was NOT a good idea. Problems occured duringinstalling when it tried to create the new base system for Leopard.My Imac won’start anymore…

I don’t blame you though, it was my own choice. But don’t advise to uncheck it as you seewhat can happen…

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November 25, 2007 at 5:34 am[...] Mac OS X 10.5, the new version of the Operative System for Apple computer from a.DMG archive file: h p://gwhiz.wordpress.com/2006/09/21/installing-leopard-from-dmg/This article starts with the bootstrappable DVD creation, which you need to launch from andthen [...]

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Brad Says:

December 3, 2007 at 10:39 amFor people having trouble partitioning an iPod with GUID, here’s a way to do it that worksfor me. I was ge ing the “unable to partition: Invalid Argument” error. This worked for meto make my iPod bootable:

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h p://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060216225428857&lsrc=osxh

Hope That Helps

Log in to ReplyMo Says:

December 12, 2007 at 8:55 amthis might be helpful

h p://www.kwtmac.com/2007/12/11/how-to-install-leopard-leopard-from-dmg-file/

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Mridul Says:

December 12, 2007 at 10:22 pmDuring the installation procedure, after selecting language, drive and ‘archive and install’ ..when i click on the install bu on …. i get an error message ” the installer cannot find thesetup file to be installed. please restart the computer and try again”.

i have tried it many times but i am ge ing the same error messageplease help if possible

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Justin C Says:

December 14, 2007 at 6:33 pmso i’m having problems. i keep ge ing this error message:h p://farm3.static.flickr.com/2169/2111848646_e1fc535a2f_o.jpg

and in the picture the disc is mounted, but even when its not mounted it doesn’t work! i alsotried this on two seperate computers, one being my g4 powerbook, and the other, mygirlfriend’s macbook. all im trying to do it get it onto my FIREWIRE ipod. help!

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Justin C Says:

December 14, 2007 at 7:27 pmfifigured it out!

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David Says:

December 16, 2007 at 7:48 pmWhen i get to the step involving System Preferences and choosing the new partition as astart up volume, while it shows up as an option (when mounted) when i select it and chooseto restart it, i get the “no, you can’t do that” noise and am forced to choose a differentpartition… any thoughts?

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G Says:

December 19, 2007 at 9:52 am

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Hi, i’m stuck, things work fine I can boot from the external hard disk, get past the firstwindow then says I get a message Mac OS X cannot upgraded to V.110.5 on your comp macos x 10.4 or laster not found…But i’m running the latest…Help…..Thanks

Log in to ReplyFrankii Says:

December 19, 2007 at 3:30 pmI did all the steps above but when my MacBook tries to start up from the partition with theLeopard installation the Loading Phase never ends >.<…. Yesterday I left the computer 2hours trying to start the Installation but it was nerver loaded o.o……. help please

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grant Says:

December 22, 2007 at 1:49 amok so ive got to the part where the dmg is on the ipod but when the installer it says resart mycomputer so i say ok and do it when it comes back on,it tells me to do it again. it also doesthe same thing if i go to start up disk and restart it if i hold alt while restarting, a real basiclooking screen comes up looks like something off of windows 98 or something its blue with apicture right in the center that says macintosh hd to the left is a bu on thats like an arrowgoing in a circle and to the right of it is an arrow the arrow just makes 10.4 come on and thecircle arrow thingy does nothing from what i can tell ive gone thruogh this process to gethere like 5 times and did all steps mentioned on this page and read everything on this pagesomebody please throw me a frikin bone its one in the morning and ive been trying to makethis work for two days HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!

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Ricky Says:

December 24, 2007 at 3:50 pmHey I need help…When I downloaded Leopard it was 7.5GB. I followed the steps andeverything goes fine until I reboot to start the installation. It never starts to install. Instead itgives me some image that looks like the finder and then it gives me a question mark. Whatdo I do?

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Jignesh Says:

December 26, 2007 at 11:56 amwhen i m installing leopard everything goin rite but when i click on erase destination andthan restote it give message that resources are in use.. can anyone help me…???

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jessica Says:

January 2, 2008 at 12:40 pmhey i do have a dl writer, what do i do?

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January 8, 2008 at 4:32 pmHi. I’ve tried to install Leopard from a iPod nano 8GB but when I restart the system beginingthe installation, at the begining it apears me shimmeringlly a folder with a question markabout two or three times and then the Tiger runs as usual.Here I’ve seen that this iPod doesn’t work for good, so I want to try to use my old iPod (thisone with the four bu ons over the roller), but…….. The ba ery is wocked… sometimes itdures very few time… and it doesnt recharge via USB and via FIREWIRE it doesnt seems tobe recognized by the system, just recharges….WHAT CAN I DO? PELASE HELP!!!!!!

Log in to ReplyGerald Buckley Says:

January 8, 2008 at 4:41 pmHere’s what each of you who are experiencing problems needs to do:

1) Save up the li le bit of money required

2) Go buy a copy of Leopard

3) Install said copy of Leopard on your Mac.

4) Pat yourself on the back for having saved yourself all the headache and hassle of finding ahalf-assed work-around.

I *WILL* continue to delete posts (notice there aren’t any) which recommend illicitworkarounds. I have a 100% kill-rate thus far.

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Nick Says:

January 24, 2008 at 4:44 pmThis question comes AFTER the successful installation of Leopard.

I realize this comment comes late in the game, however I’ve been using leopard from myADC dmg, thanks to your post, for a while and have just recently had the urge to a emptwhat has caused this issue. Essentially, I installed leopard and it worked great, but since Iam absolutely in love with some XP applications such as Office 2007, and cant justify buying2008 just to use it on my mac, I recently powered up boot camp to help me create avista/leopard dual install. I partitioned my disk, installed windows, and logged in.

To clarify, dual booting with Boot Camp requires what are called mac windows drivers, soyou can connect to the internet and use your isight and what have you on a vista OS.Initially in earlier versions of Boot Camp they would let you burn a drivers CD, so that onceyou were in windows you could install the drivers from the CD. However, you are no longerprompted to create a drivers CD in Boot Camp 2.0 because the drivers now come on theLeopard install disk. So I hopefully overlooked this assuming that once I was in windows Icould open the directory of my usb hard drive where I restored the dmg, mount it, andinstall it from there.

However, the main issue is that when in windows, without the necessary drivers, I cannoteven access my usb hard drive. I restarted the computer after initially logging into windowsonce I realized this, and holding option I booted back into OS X. I have since found no way

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to access the install partition from windows, and the closest I was able to get was burningMacDrive, daemon tools, and MagicISO to a cd and using those utilities to first get the dmgfrom my mac partition over to windows, turn it into an iso, and then mount it. However Icant mount a dmg with daemon, and MagicISO is having issues converting the dmg to aniso. Maybe it corrupted when I transfered it over to the windows partition using MacDrive?

I’m guessing apple removed the windows mac drivers from the internet and the bootcampassistant to prevent piracy, but I’m unable to put the XP system to any decent use because Icant connect to the internet or anything like that. Ideas?

thanks

Log in to ReplyAndroid Says:

January 30, 2008 at 10:22 pmThis methed is so solid. Thanks for the guide, I dont know why its not more widely used?One question though why does this partition not show up in option boot mode?

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Bhad133 Says:

February 26, 2008 at 10:49 pmI loaded everything the way i was suppose to on my ipod and got the installation mode tocome up but when I got to the step where i have to pick to install it on my hard drive, nooptions of where to install it appear. I tried restarting from both the startup disk and thenetwork. No luck.

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Tersiops Says:

March 11, 2008 at 7:03 pmNice explanation….had an old G4 without a DL DVD reader and wanted to create a Leopardsever. Glad I found this…..saved me quite a bit of time. Thanks!

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Paul Says:

March 13, 2008 at 4:40 pmso, here’s probablly the silliest question here xD, so, i have a dual layer wri er and a 8 gbdvd , so can i burn the dmg file on it?, when it’s possible, how i have to burn that dvd?have ito partion my drive? please help

thanx

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klaesjes Says:

March 21, 2008 at 10:49 amHi,I am using an external Iomega HD. I followed this tutorial, and I managed to boot theLeopard dvd. But when I must select the drive on which Leopard has to be installed, I

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cannot see my internal HD, but only the partitions on the external HD. Do you know how Ican fix this? (I want to install Leopard on my internal HD, not on my external Iomega HD)

Thanks!

Log in to Replyklaesjes Says:

March 22, 2008 at 5:13 amI don’t know why, but the internal HD appeared +-15 minutes after I booted the DVD, andthen I could select it as drive to install leopard.Thanks for the tutorial!

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Jake Says:

March 25, 2008 at 6:32 pmHey. Can you make the partitions on your Macintosh HD drive? Like not use an externaldrive or anything? Just put it all onto your internal drive. Will it work with aiomegadrive?….. please help! Because, when I restart my computer to load leopard, it justgoes right back to normal (tiger). HELP!

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Yoshi man Says:

March 29, 2008 at 9:25 pmi got pre y far into this. i got all the way to the disk utility and clicking on restart butnothing then happens, the li le tab that says to restart just closes and nothing happens. Whatdo i do? can anyone please email [email protected]

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DrummerBummeR Says:

April 1, 2008 at 7:49 amWOHA!Used USB iPod nano 3.gen. 8 gB

And IT WORKED!

Wipe it all off in disk utility, restore it with the .dmg, WAIT.When you try to install Leopard through a Dock-cable, it WILL be slow…

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Jaap Says:

April 5, 2008 at 11:34 amUSB disk DO boot on Intel’s NOT on PPC

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Michael Hess Says:

April 7, 2008 at 8:44 pm

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Installed to my eMac 1.42G box like this (via USB):

(This is almost verbatim from h p://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060301112336384)

1. Get info on USB partition that you’ve restored DMG from, find the diskxsx label for theUSB drive, the x’s will be disk and part number, mine was disk1s10.

2. Boot into Open Firmware, hold Command-Option-O-F right after turning on.

3. Type devalias, find ud in the list, should be /pci@f2000000/usb@1/disk1, mine was a bitdifferent.

4. Type printenv boot-device write down the output.

5. Type setenv boot-device ud:10,\\:tbxi no spaces and substitute the 10 for the number youfound above.

6. Type printenv boot-device again and verify the change.

7. Type mac-boot and install.

I used a Buffalo MiniStation and it worked perfectly. Reset PRAM after to clear up the bootflag, or manually change it back.

So, Yes PPC’s CAN boot from USB

Going to try on my Old 300Mhz G4 next…

Log in to ReplyPinoyRoots Says:

April 9, 2008 at 9:16 pmWorked like a charm! used a portable HD, made an 8GB partition, mounted the image there,rebooted, Viola! Thank You =D

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Sco Anthony Says:

April 12, 2008 at 12:13 pmTHIS WORKED PERFECTLY, didn’t need to partition on my external USB drive, installedperfectly, woohoo!

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DaveR Says:

April 15, 2008 at 12:33 amI am able to restore my .iso file to a partition on my external and it shows up in startup diskas a bootable partition, but when I restart it just has that li le loading circle forever andnever actually boots into the dvd image. Does anyone have any ideas?

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April 15, 2008 at 9:59 pmHi ya’ll!

I tried the whole thing with a USB disk, but no go! I need to log in before a USB disk mounts.So no startup from USB. And I don’t have a FireWire drive…I want to install 10.5 on my media server Mac Mini and if it works cool, I’ll put it on my workMac, an iMac G5 20”.

I have an old iBook G3 hanging around to show sketches to clients and I reinstalled OS X10.4 but now with 2 partitions: 1 of 8,5 GB for 10.5 and 1 with the rest of the 20GB. I installed10.4 on 1 partition and followed the instructions here to make the second partition the 10.5startup.

In the iBook, I went to System Preferences>Startup Disk and choose “Target Disk Mode”which makes it restart as a FW disk. I connected it with a FW cable to my G5, and openedthe System Preferences in the G5>Startup Disk and choose the partition with 10.5 of theiBook. I restarted the G5 and it started, ready to install 10.5!

So you can use any Mac (running 10.4 and maybe 10.3) to dress up as FW disk.

Now I will try it on the Mac Mini. I’ll let you know if it works on the Mini to install.

Cheers!Jonathan

Log in to ReplyRafael Says:

April 16, 2008 at 12:13 pmI follow your step and works perfectly… the problem is that I want to reinstall leopard, onthe same mac… the problem is that when I go to the startup disk the USB device is notselectable (in leopard), how can I tell leopard to boot from the usb partition that I haveloaded the DMG file?

Regards,Rafael.

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vcdrummer08 Says:

April 28, 2008 at 12:45 amHey everyone,All useful posts, but I do have a DL Burner. I feel like a bit of a n00b, but how can I create aBOOTABLE dmg from the original leopard install DVD? Everything I try yields a disc that isnot bootable (holding down option at start-up doesn’t even show the burned disc). NEEDHELP!Thx,vcdrummer08MacBook Pro 17″ 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, etc…

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May 6, 2008 at 5:39 amWhen i use disk utility to restore and so on to install from an external usb drive …this comesup..You must authenticate in order to restore…What does this mean???? any work around?

Log in to ReplyRob07 Says:

May 8, 2008 at 8:52 amIm presuming that the installer partition will be wiped (so the destination should not besomething that I don’t want erased?) But does where I actually install the OS get wiped? Imguessing not as that is an option within setup, and i can just archive the old OS

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pimphedpe Says:

May 15, 2008 at 6:48 pmhey guys real simple step follow what renee said up there to a T… i have a power mac G4.simplest way to do this from a dmg file….. add second slave internal hard drive…. make 2partions…….. go into disk utility….. select the slave drive go to partion…. make 2….nameone leopard and the other one (whatever u want to call it) blank… highlight the leopardpartion click on restore…drag ur dmg image from the desktop into the source.. then drag urblank partion into the destination… that simple… click restore then ok…. when it trys to runthe install close it… go tot system preferences startup disk.. selcte os 10 x leopard and clickrestart.. dont hit any keys… it will load the installer. now go through as normal and installon the leopard partion.. easy as 1,2,3…. pimphedpe gots ur hookup holla if ya hear me …woot woot

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qorghdud Says:

May 29, 2008 at 4:42 pmI’m also running into error.After I have mount it the .dmg and drag the .dmg file onto the source and drag my externalonto the destination (blank external) and checked both erase destination and skip checksum,I keep ge ing this error message “Restore Failure” An error (16) occurred while copying.(Resource busy).

I have the first generation macbook 10.4.11 2ghz intel core duo processor 2gb ram.

Could you please help me?

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clint Says:

June 21, 2008 at 10:52 pmhow do you partitions?

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Karl Says:

June 25, 2008 at 11:20 amclint: jusr drag the contents of the hard drive to the trash can.

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Log in to ReplyNash Says:

June 26, 2008 at 8:43 pmi tryed doing this with my ipod mini, and 500gb external drive, and i get a failure eachtime,… why

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ben Says:

June 30, 2008 at 10:03 amI followed everything like you said and when i rebooted off the macinstallDVD partition itsays “invalid memory acces at SRR0: 06602548 SSR: 00083030″ then it says “to continue type“macboot” and press return. To shut down type Shut-down”. so i tryd “macboot” and it getsstuck at a white screen with black lines. I can’t boot into my old OS (panther) so i really needhelp please. if you can, email me at “[email protected]”cheers!

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cryfex Says:

July 22, 2008 at 10:44 pmHi mate welll it is a great work indeed i just did everythng you told with the own hard diskof MacBookPro.I partioned it into 3 part 1 for leopard 1 for tiger 1 for boot.. I installedLeopard .But, i want to partion my hard disk into 1 single volumr without destroyingleopard. When i open bootcamp it say you cannot partion this disk it is already partioned blabla bla. I nedd really quick help if you can post here or mail me .Thank you.

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tlooon Says:

August 12, 2008 at 3:44 pmYaeh, it works with a FW drive, but first you must format it to MacOS file system

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Buha Says:

August 13, 2008 at 9:03 pmI have a macbook and I downloaded the leopard .dmg file and burned it to a dual layer discusing disc utility. It boots up but after it restarts nothing else happens. Am I doingsomething wrong?

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kdf Says:

August 17, 2008 at 8:54 amhave a leopeard in .dmg file in DVD, macbook pro will not recognize the file and boot, triedusing external hard drive but startup disk will not have external hard drive in bootup. anysuggestions how to install the OS from an image file.

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