How to install Mac OS X Tiger without a DVD/CD; My Combo drive is out of order

neomartian · Dec 6, 2007

Hi guys!

My combo drive is out of order. Its not reading any DVD/CD and I'm in need to clean install my Mac OS X Tiger. To add to my woes, I don't have an external DVD drive but I do have an external HDD. Is there a way I can copy the image of the DVD on my external HDD and run a setup from there? Help needed please!

robbieduncan · Dec 6, 2007

You can only copy the image if you are willing to wipe the external drive (to do this use disk utility to image the DVD then restore that to the external drive). Easier is to use another Mac and boot the one you want to install Tiger on in target disk mode.

Iamtherealwoody · Dec 6, 2007

If you can create a new partition on your external drive you can copy the image onto it, then declare that partition as the boot partition.

Thats what ive done with leopard, just incase something happens to the DVD
heres the instructions I followed verbatim, it only works on a firewire drive though.

http://gwhiz.wordpress.com/2006/09/21/installing-leopard-from-dmg/

bigandy · Dec 6, 2007

using disk utility you can 'restore' the DVD image to your external drive directly too, without wiping the disk (just don't tick the 'erase source' box).

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