On 07/08/2009, at 4:19 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
In my trawling the help pages during my trauma of earlier, resulting
in a clean install and restore from TimeMachine, I came across the
suggestion that one should clone the Leopard DVD on to the Time
Machine disk and then use that as a start up disk. That would not
have helped me today as I could only boot from a DVD but it seems
like a neat idea and presumably the basic Leopard install would be
faster.
Has anyone else come across this and will it actually work?
Severin Crisp
Hi Severin,
The way you can do this as I have done this but not on a Drive that
has Time Machine (I don't use Time Machine):
I'll followed these instructions "How to clone the Leopard Install DVD
to an external FireWire drive"
First Clone the Leopard DVD as a DVD/CD Master with no encryption, and
saved the image to the Desktop:
1. Insert the Leopard DVD into my MacBook Pro
2. Open Disk Utility
3. From the DU contextual File menu select New: Disk Image.
Two levels appear for the installer DVD in the column at the left side
of the DVD: I selected the second level ("Mac OS X Install DVD") so
that I could choose File > New > Disk Image From [weirdNumber] (Mac OS
X Install DVD). I specified that I wanted a DVD/CD Master with no
encryption, and saved the image to the Desktop, naming it
LeopardInstall.cdr. (you could probable name it something else).
4. When the disk image has been created (something under an hour
later), I ejected the DVD and proceeded to prepare the external
FireWire drive (still using the Leopard Disk Utility). I partitioned
the external FireWire drive into two, one a 10GB partition, the other
encompassing all the rest of the drive.
My intention here is to use the small partition to hold the bootable
installer image, and the large partition to receive Time Machine
backups from now on.
Since this is an Intel machine, and because I wanted to simulate the
conditions of users who have no PowerPC machine, I specified that I
wanted the GUID partition scheme. (That is not the default; you must
summon the Options dialogue if you want to set it.) I did not install
the Mac OS 9 drivers.
5. When the external FireWire drive had been partitioned, I selected
the newly created small partition in the left column of Disk Utilities
(still using Leopard Disk Utility). I switched to the Restore pane.
Into the Source box, I dragged the saved disk image from the Desktop.
Into the Destination pane, I dragged the newly created smaller
partition of the external FireWire drive from the left column of Disk
Utilities. I did not check the Erase box. I pressed Restore and the
clone was created.
When the clone had been created, no system was visible on the FireWire
partition. But then, no system is visible on the original DVD either.
Still, to make sure everything was okay, I used the Startup Disk
preference to specify that I wanted to start up from the cloned
partition on the external FireWire disk, and rebooted.
Sure enough, I found myself in the installer.
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
OS X 10.5.7
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