Can I Load Snow Leopard from My HDD?

[Afflicted Max]

I copied my disc onto my hard drive when I first installed OS X [made a 10GB partition in DiskUtility] incase I needed the disc and wasn't at home.

Well, I don't have my disc, and won't have access to it for another week. I'm trying to set up a triple boot with OSX, Ubuntu, and W7. Can I load the Snow Leopard install DVD from that partition in my hard drive, while running Windows 7?

Thanks

 

[balamw]

Can I load the Snow Leopard install DVD from that partition in my hard drive, while running Windows 7?

Not while running W7, no. Can you boot to your 10GB partition? Did you copy your disc as an ISO or some other way?

EDIT: Read this: http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/02/inst...or-how-to-upgrade-to-106-without-a-dvd-drive/

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[Afflicted Max]

When I finish installing W7, don't I need the Snow Leopard disc to finish installing the drivers and such?

 

[balamw]

When I finish installing W7, don't I need the Snow Leopard disc to finish installing the drivers and such?

Ah. The drivers are on a separate ISO partition on the OS X install disc, not on the HFS+ partition where OS X lives.

Unless you already knew this (which it seems like you didn't) you probably didn't copy them.

It can be tricky to access them from within OS X. (e.g. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/892725/)

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