At 7:31 AM -0600 8/24/2010, Nestamicky wrote:
The objective is to install 10.5 using .dmg.
The approach, as she just explained it to me: Put the HD that 10.5
is being installed to inside the machine, having formatted and
partitioned it; one for OS, the other for personal data. Boot off an
HD with an OS-Tiger-and mount, this HD is connected to Firewire.
Mount the dmg from the desktop of this HD and restore it using Disk
utility to a partition in the HD inside the machine. Once that's
done reboot using the mounted .dmg as the start up disk and then
install to one of the partitions inside the machine.
The problem:
Dragging the .dmg to the "source" option in Disk Utility does not
happen. It simply does not move, even if the .dmg has been mounted.
You could click on the Image button next to the source field.
If someone knows of a better way to do this install, please write it
here as clear as possible, so I can just forward it to her. I've
never done this before, and thought I'd ask here for her.
What a messy process. But I guess if you have no DVD drive, and no
other Mac to use in TDM, it might work -- assumin that the OS X
installer/DVD is happy with being imaged onto a different medium like
that (I've never tried it).
How 'bout using CCC to clone the dmg into the "personal data"
partition, instead of Disk Utility?
- Dan.
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