Clean Install of snow leopard using remote disc?

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  1. jdawgg, Mar 31, 2010

    jdawgg macrumors newbie

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    My dvd drive is busted, so I'm attempting to use remote disc to install snow leopard on my macbook pro (running 10.5.5).

    There doesn't seem to be a clean install option without running the snow leopard disc from boot. Is there any way that I can run the install disc from boot via remote disc so I can run a clean install?
    I tried restarting my computer and holding down the alt/option key, which showed the only available boot drive as my macbook pro's internal hard drive.

    any help is greatly appreciated
    thanks!
     
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  2. OldMike, Mar 31, 2010

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    I've never used remote disc before, but you can use Disk Utility to create an image of the install disc onto a USB thumb drive or external drive, and boot off of that and install. I usually keep bootable images of my install discs in case of this same scenario.
     
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