CReating a boot Leopard install drive from a dvd
 

Hi people

I use a MacBook Pro 17 Core2 and i want to be able to install Leopard from my Hard Drive instead of a DVD.

Now i made a DMG file of the DVD, verified and all., But when i try to RESTORE the Leopard Image to the drive with Disk Utilities i get error 2 or 16.

I am using a Firewire 320GB HD.

Can anyone advise a step by step way to get this done so i can Boot "Leopard installer" from my external HD?

Cheers

I think you'd just use "Backup - all files" from the DVD to a volume on your drive, but as I recall recent DVDs have complained that they need to run from the 'original media'.

i only have the DMG file here, any ideas?

You could try opening the DMG and copying from its volume to the drive.

ok how do you do this?

I am assuming i simply mount the DMG and then clone it to a HARD drive?

That's right. Open the DMG, then select its volume in the source pop-up, the destination you want, and "Backup - all files" with Smart Update or Erase, then copy.

you sure it will boot from the hard drive then?

When i tried last time it kept saying volume al ready mounted in the rror log.

just asking

at the moment i finally managed to restore the DMG file with "Disk Utility" by apple, saying copying blocks for the last 3 hours at 3 percent.

ill try your method after, i just have a hard time understanding how it will work since the system needs to be blessed , some say in forums ( ifound goggling)

SuperDuper blesses; that's what "Make bootable" is.

thanks for your help so far, im stuck at Preparing your mac osx Install DVD for ages here, is there a problem with me using a 2.5 Firewire partition of 10GB?

I started fine with a 2.5 10GB partition of a USB drive too but i heard clunks and pulle dit out realizing it was stuck.

Let me know if Fire wire is ok and if it takes longer

Cheers

Should be fine, perhaps you need to restart your Mac.

Restarting did the trick

Finished in 13 minutes, no other applications running.


I was hopin to again move even that image to the USB 2.5 drive, cuase its a 300GB and i want to make it a back up of my internal MacBook Pro files as well as a DVD close bt i get this error too now.

| 06:43:37 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Repairing permissions on Mac OS X Install DVD
| 06:43:38 AM | Info | Error detected (-9997) while verifying/repairing permissions disk disk2s2 Mac OS X Install DVD
| 06:43:38 AM | Error | ****FAILED****: result=256 errno=22 (Unknown error: 0)
Any advise would be appreciated.


I am suspicious that my USB drive making strange noize means its bad :(

Turn off permission repair.

cheers it works