Comments on: Install Leopard With An External Hard Drive http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:35:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: frz903 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-930 frz903 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 09:37:11 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-930 I'm writing this comment from my new leopard os! thanks to saucE and a few tricks! 1.42 PPC gHz procesor, did not need firewire! what i did was had the leopard.dmg on my external hard drive, inserted tiger install cd, partitioned internal hard disk into 10/rest. then i continued installing tiger. once fully reinstalled tiger, i placed the leopard.dmg in the bigger partition, and continued on with saucE's instructions on booting from that partition as if it was a firewire drive! FOLLOW IF YOU HAVE PPC BUT NO FIREWIRE EXTERNAL! WORKED! I’m writing this comment from my new leopard os! thanks to saucE and a few tricks!

1.42 PPC gHz procesor, did not need firewire! what i did was had the leopard.dmg on my external hard drive, inserted tiger install cd, partitioned internal hard disk into 10/rest. then i continued installing tiger. once fully reinstalled tiger, i placed the leopard.dmg in the bigger partition, and continued on with saucE’s instructions on booting from that partition as if it was a firewire drive!

FOLLOW IF YOU HAVE PPC BUT NO FIREWIRE EXTERNAL! WORKED!

]]> By: Calvinalibra http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-928 Calvinalibra Sat, 28 May 2011 23:40:27 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-928 After all these years, this method still works. Great post, thanks a MILLION! After all these years, this method still works. Great post, thanks a MILLION!

]]> By: Mulder http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-923 Mulder Sun, 01 May 2011 15:11:31 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-923 Trying to install Leopard onto my XLR8-upgraded G4 iMac (1.35 Ghz), but the installer refuses to let me. I've surmised that it can't find the kernel extension to tell it the real speed of the machine, but even if I load it manually from Terminal in the Leopard installer, the installer will not run. So, either I'm giving it the wrong path to the installer in Terminal, or something else is wrong that I can't figure out. Trying other solutions such as Leopard Assist to fool the firmware doesn't work, either. I'd like to be able to install it from a USB stick, or my external backup drive, but am not sure if the solution presented here will work, or is worth the time to test it? Ideas? Solutions? Trying to install Leopard onto my XLR8-upgraded G4 iMac (1.35 Ghz), but the installer refuses to let me. I’ve surmised that it can’t find the kernel extension to tell it the real speed of the machine, but even if I load it manually from Terminal in the Leopard installer, the installer will not run.

So, either I’m giving it the wrong path to the installer in Terminal, or something else is wrong that I can’t figure out. Trying other solutions such as Leopard Assist to fool the firmware doesn’t work, either.

I’d like to be able to install it from a USB stick, or my external backup drive, but am not sure if the solution presented here will work, or is worth the time to test it?

Ideas? Solutions?

]]> By: Brandon http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-922 Brandon Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:41:04 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-922 If I set my partition as my startup disk, what happens if it is not there? Will it just not start? If I set my partition as my startup disk, what happens if it is not there?
Will it just not start?

]]> By: Yariv http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-921 Yariv Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:16:28 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-921 Hi it worked! Thanks for the guide i used it with my western digital external hard drive. BTW this method also worx for snow leopard http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Top-3-External-Hard-Drives-For-the-Year-2010-2011&id=5299474 Hi it worked!
Thanks for the guide i used it with my western digital external hard drive. BTW this method also worx for snow leopard

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Top-3-External-Hard-Drives-For-the-Year-2010-2011&id=5299474

]]> By: Duda http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-920 Duda Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:56:57 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-920 i Have an imac intel processor with a new hard drive, so, no system installed, i have snow leopard on my external USB hard drive. Can i do all steps on my running macbook and after force the imac with no system boot from the external hard drive.i don't have fire wire cable and i want to avoid buying a double layer cd. any idea if this is possible to do. Thank you very much, Duda. i Have an imac intel processor with a new hard drive, so, no system installed, i have snow leopard on my external USB hard drive. Can i do all steps on my running macbook and after force the imac with no system boot from the external hard drive.i don’t have fire wire cable and i want to avoid buying a double layer cd.
any idea if this is possible to do.

Thank you very much,
Duda.

]]> By: ZIggy http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-919 ZIggy Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:08:42 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-919 Brilliant. Thanks for posting. For those of you who might not completely understand what this is about: This is not about installing the os onto a flash drive or usb hdd and then running the os from the drive - but rather it is about installing the os onto a machine if, for example, your install DVD is damaged or your DVD drive is not working well enough to use it to install the os, but you can still make a .dmg image of the DVD on another machine. If you want to take the .dmg and use it to install the os on an intel mac, you should be able to make a flash drive or usb drive bootable and then just boot the intel mac from it. However if have an older PPC (powerpc) machine this will not work, because ppc machines won't recognize a usb drive, or anything plugged into the usb2 port, when booting. So all this is telling us is that we can take an install DVD, run it only through the beginning on the machine we want to install the os on, so we get the menu at the very top. This menu allows us to run disc utility - run it .. and follow the steps to create a partition on the main hard drive on the same machine - your main hard drive must be partitioned, and all we're here is creating two partitions instead of one, and making the second one only about 10 mb in size, for the purpose of then copying the bootable usb device onto ... because every computer will always look at the main hard drive when it boots. This way, you will end up with one large partition, and another small one. The small one has the bootable installation dvd information on it. Note that your main hard drive must be partitioned, and a brand new one is probably not. Also note that you will not definitely have to lose everything on the large partition; it depends on what your original partition map scheme was - in some cases you will be able to just add a partition without erasing the existing one. After you've used the "restore" funtion in disc utility to copy the .dmg onto the new, small partition, you should be able to just close disc utility, power down, unplug the USB device, and restart, and the machine will FIND the bootable installation "disc" which is your smaller partition on the main hard drive. This is not a question of whether you can install the os from the usb drive on a ppc machine. It is a good method to install the os when your dvd drive isn't cutting it, or if you want to not use the dvd drive, or if you want to keep a copy of the installer package on your machine for future use. It is particularly useful if you have a dvd that doesn't complete the install because of some damage, but will spin ok in a newer drive on a different machine, which happens. Brilliant. Thanks for posting.
For those of you who might not completely understand what this is about:
This is not about installing the os onto a flash drive or usb hdd and then running the os from the drive - but rather it is about installing the os onto a machine if, for example, your install DVD is damaged or your DVD drive is not working well enough to use it to install the os, but you can still make a .dmg image of the DVD on another machine.
If you want to take the .dmg and use it to install the os on an intel mac, you should be able to make a flash drive or usb drive bootable and then just boot the intel mac from it. However if have an older PPC (powerpc) machine this will not work, because ppc machines won’t recognize a usb drive, or anything plugged into the usb2 port, when booting.
So all this is telling us is that we can take an install DVD, run it only through the beginning on the machine we want to install the os on, so we get the menu at the very top. This menu allows us to run disc utility - run it .. and follow the steps to create a partition on the main hard drive on the same machine - your main hard drive must be partitioned, and all we’re here is creating two partitions instead of one, and making the second one only about 10 mb in size, for the purpose of then copying the bootable usb device onto … because every computer will always look at the main hard drive when it boots. This way, you will end up with one large partition, and another small one. The small one has the bootable installation dvd information on it.
Note that your main hard drive must be partitioned, and a brand new one is probably not. Also note that you will not definitely have to lose everything on the large partition; it depends on what your original partition map scheme was - in some cases you will be able to just add a partition without erasing the existing one.
After you’ve used the “restore” funtion in disc utility to copy the .dmg onto the new, small partition, you should be able to just close disc utility, power down, unplug the USB device, and restart, and the machine will FIND the bootable installation “disc” which is your smaller partition on the main hard drive.
This is not a question of whether you can install the os from the usb drive on a ppc machine. It is a good method to install the os when your dvd drive isn’t cutting it, or if you want to not use the dvd drive, or if you want to keep a copy of the installer package on your machine for future use.
It is particularly useful if you have a dvd that doesn’t complete the install because of some damage, but will spin ok in a newer drive on a different machine, which happens.

]]> By: shegtwice http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-916 shegtwice Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:04:11 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-916 i did the installation fine, but it is not booting from the hard drive. the hard drive is not listed in the startup disk option. i did the installation fine, but it is not booting from the hard drive. the hard drive is not listed in the startup disk option.

]]> By: Lucas http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-913 Lucas Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:02:00 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-913 Is cool I fixed it :) THank you all so much peace Is cool I fixed it :) THank you all so much peace

]]> By: Lucas http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-912 Lucas Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:02:30 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-912 Hi, I mounted it and everything got to the installer, then I get this "The Installer could not create the folder "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/BaseSystem.pkg.1631CVVky". Any way around this? - thank you Hi, I mounted it and everything got to the installer, then I get this “The Installer could not create the folder “/Volumes/Macintosh HD/BaseSystem.pkg.1631CVVky”. Any way around this? - thank you

]]>