Installing Leopard from a .DMG

[jadedknight]

RTFM!

Or, get in contact with the people at Apple, if you have a ADC account they are more than happy to guide you through the process.

Why an external drive, you can install via terminal.

Yes I am also interested, how would you do that?

 

[Peace]

If one was an ADC member you would know the way I posted is the recommended way of doing it. Either that or burn it to a DL+R DVD.

 

[MacDonaldsd]

wait you can upgrade ldopard in terminal, im adc and i didnt know that, or did you mean burn the dizk from the terminal

Yeah if you can that will save a lot of hassle.

 

[UbuntuFu]

You can use an external firewire to store your Leopard .DMG (whether or not you got it legally I don't care). The Apple geniuses have FW disks with partitions for Panther, Tiger and now probably Leopard. So when you bring your computer in and you tell them you lost your discs they can do a restore for you with their FW drive.

I personally made images from my all discs and just store them on my external hard drive. I don't believe in DVD-Rs or CD-Rs, I haven't bought one in years.

 

[iamse7en]

Running into Problems

So, I restored the Leopard.dmg to my FW External Hard drive on my Power Mac Dual G5. I want to use this External Hard Drive to update to Leopard on my PPC, my MacBook Pro, and my wife's MacBook.

On my MacBook Pro, I booted off the external hard drive just fine, but when it came to selecting a disc to install, my MacBook pro internal hard drive did not show! There were no discs for me to select. I can't get it to work. Did I do something wrong?

Thank you!

 

[janey]

I'm just trying to understand the rationale behind your purpose. I cant say I would worry about reinstalling OS X so much that I'd be paranoid about scratched media...but then, I dont live in a Windows world, where its all too common to install every few months.

The last time I reinstalled OS X on my mini, the edge of the opening of the slot load drive was tight enough that my not putting in the disk straight and rather at a slight angle was enough to create a nice massive jagged scratch on the bottom of the restore DVD.

Thankfully the disk still works (as this was during Tiger, and Apple sold no Tiger Intel disks). But accidents happen. It isn't a windows/mac thing at all 🙄 😡

 

[janitorC7]

Yeah if you can that will save a lot of hassle.

so still confused, can you do the actualy upgrade from terminal, or just burn the disk....

I know you can do the latter

 

[Shanesan]

Just a tad over defensive there....

I'm just trying to understand the rationale behind your purpose. I cant say I would worry about reinstalling OS X so much that I'd be paranoid about scratched media...but then, I dont live in a Windows world, where its all too common to install every few months.

WildPalms, your speech towards this individual is very ignorant.

If you read the thread, you would have understood his rationale behind his purpose, yet you completely failed to even attempt to.

As far as your rationale is concerned is a moot point. There's a lot more to the OS X disk than simply OS X, and its a disk worth saving. You don't throw away your OS disk after your done, do you? OP is making sure, if something does go wrong (if something bad can happen, it will), he's ready.

But then, I don't live in la-la land, where it's all too common to think your ideas are the end-all be-all.

Sorry to clutter your thread OP, but I couldn't help myself.