Need help installing leopard from ex. hard drive

[CodyLee]

I have the disk image for Leopard on my external hard drive. I put it on there from my Powerbook. I tried to reinstall Leopard onto a Macbook but it wouldn't let me because I had to do a GUID partition on the external hard drive. I did that, put the DMG back onto the external drive and went to install it. I went to Startup Disk under System Prefences but my hard drive isn't showing up.

Where did I go wrong?

Thanks in advance

 

[BlueRevolution]

How did you put the DMG onto the drive?

 

[CodyLee]

I just dragged (drug?) it onto the drive from the desktop (I had copied it from the drive at first, then pasted it to the desktop to save it while I repartitioned the drive)

 

[BlueRevolution]

You can't boot to a file. If the drive is empty, just use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the DMG onto the drive.

 

[Jackyl]

Here's how I'd do it

I have the disk image for Leopard on my external hard drive. I put it on there from my Powerbook. I tried to reinstall Leopard onto a Macbook but it wouldn't let me because I had to do a GUID partition on the external hard drive. I did that, put the DMG back onto the external drive and went to install it. I went to Startup Disk under System Prefences but my hard drive isn't showing up.

Where did I go wrong?

Thanks in advance

I'd burn the dmg to a DVD double then do the regular install. You'll need the dbl dvd though. (Was that Leopard or Snow Leopard?) you didn't say