Installing Leopard from disk image?

Dimwhit

macrumors 68020

Original poster

• Jan 16, 2008

• #1

Is this even possible? I'm trying to get Leopard on our G5 PowerMac, but it won't read the disk (it reads all other disks). Trying to figure out a workaround to get it installed, but I'm coming up empty. I was going to boot it to target disk mode and install from another computer, but we don't have any other PowerPC machines to use. I know the disk is good, because my other machine can read it fine.

Any suggestions?

 

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Amdahl

macrumors 65816

• Jan 16, 2008

• #2

Dimwhit said:

Is this even possible? I'm trying to get Leopard on our G5 PowerMac, but it won't read the disk (it reads all other disks). Trying to figure out a workaround to get it installed, but I'm coming up empty. I was going to boot it to target disk mode and install from another computer, but we don't have any other PowerPC machines to use. I know the disk is good, because my other machine can read it fine.

Any suggestions?

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I don't think it has to be a PowerMac. I have done cross-platform installs the other direction before.

edit: Oops, I didn't see what you really said! You're going about the problem backwards. Don't put the G5 in Target mode, put the intel machine in Target mode, and then boot the G5 by holding Alt/Option and boot the CD of the intel machine.

 

Counterfit

macrumors G3

• Jan 16, 2008

• #3

Not sure if this is quite what you're asking, but you can't boot from a disk image (unless it's NetBoot image).

 

Dimwhit

macrumors 68020

Original poster

• Jan 16, 2008

• #4

Amdahl said:

edit: Oops, I didn't see what you really said! You're going about the problem backwards. Don't put the G5 in Target mode, put the intel machine in Target mode, and then boot the G5 by holding Alt/Option and boot the CD of the intel machine.

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So if there's a disk on, say, a MacBook, and I boot it to target disk mode, I can access the disk? Sweet! That might be the solution I'm looking for. Thanks!