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FabienGuibert

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Aug 21, 2009
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Alright first of all, Hello to you all, I've been reading this forum for a couple of month even though this is my first intervention and i need a tip. Alright my situation is the following:

I have:

-Macbook Pro Unibody
-Macbook C2D
-Snow leopard Disc x2
-Snow leopard image I cloned to a hard drive partition.

The situation is I have bought two licenses for Snow leopard because i have two macs. The macbook pro is the computer i use everyday and is fully functional. The macbook however took a big drop about a year ago and the display was totally broke along with the DVD and the hard drive. I retrieved an old HDD i had with leopard installed and put it in the macbook along with an external display and i now use this computer as a media center. The problem is i want to install snow leopard on it.

The DVD drive is broken hence the reason i made a disc image and i wanted to install from the disc image. SO i restart the macbook with the alt key and as expected, the image from the usb drive is detected and i launch the install. The problem comes from the fact that when the installation starts, the external display is set as secondary display and i cant control the installation which is displayed wont eh broken display.

Is there a way to remotely install SL or to set the external display as only display at boot through holding a bunch of keys?

Thank you and i hope i wasnt too confusing

Fabien
 

psxtreme

macrumors member
Jun 27, 2009
33
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I think the best way to go about this would be to use target disk mode on your macbook pro to install snow leopard to the macbook.
 
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