Reinstalling leopard on boot drive from USB?

[pyromaniaque]

Recently, I saved my leopard disk image to my usb (ntfs, i believe if that matters). The problem is, how do I get it to run, so I can run the leopard program? I've tried holding down Option but my USB does not show up as a startup drive. Essentially, that's all I want to do...

During the installation process, will I be able to format my normal boot drive (mac hdd)?

 

[pyromaniaque]

Oh c'mon... someone here has to know whether or not this would work....

 

[iLog.Genius]

Image won't work. You would need to install Leopard onto USB drive first only after that will it be detected on startup.

 

[Cave Man]

Recently, I saved my leopard disk image to my usb (ntfs, i believe if that matters).

It matters a lot since you did two things that impede booting. You need to use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy your Leopard installer to a USB hard drive or flash drive (8 gb or larger) that is GUID. Only then can you boot from it.

 

[iLog.Genius]

What Cave Man said (I read wrong, you don't want to boot the actual OS from USB, you just want the installer).

 

[sickmacdoc]

Or better just use the original disk that you created the image from and skip the image.