Installing SL from a DMG

[SckweeWasHere]

having a problem.. my new partitions are not showing up in the left grid.. HELP PLEASE!!

[SpliffyDLicious]

@SckweeWasHere

yikes?!!

thats not good.

Any drive that is connected to your machine should appear. If not... then they aren't actually there/made.

Rinse and repeat?

[Luceeta]

@SckweeWasHere seems you forgot to verify the disk. 

[marduk4132]

Thank you for your video.  It works perfectly

[coltonlux7734]

will this erase all files on my macbook pro? or keep them?

[natansiphone]

WHY THE HELL DO TOU HAVE A BOOKMARK NAMED SATAN?????? AT 0:46!!!! WTFFFFF

[RSfreakyboy]

How long does it take before it done the partitions ??

[bass47k]

so I followed every step successfully. but when I try to reboot I only get the one option, my HD. I read some where that in disc utility owner enabled must say "yes"

I am using a kingston flash drive. please help!

[mkoo33]

I have 3 partitions. 1 MAC , 1 windows + 1 fat32 for sharing between osx and windows. Now in DU i've erased the fat32 partition to HFS+ journaled then i restored there SL from retail dmg. Then i reboot to install SL from disk, but i got a boot error, then i boot in windows, pop up disk management and the whole partition where it was leopard it appears as "unalocated" .Wow.. that's weird.!

[halqubai]

Why am I stuck at "Modifying Partition Map" now for over an hour?

What do I do now? restart? or stop? or what? I followed the steps here precisely and yet it did not finish. that way I won't just have a pickle, I will probably have a whole elephant.

or did he mean pickle as a metaphor for messing up my macbook?

[fazoomah]

this guys name is Raashid Johnson lol

[DJJuzz]

What I think I might do is reformat Leopard and when I am doing the install create the 3 partitions. Then once Leopard is installed I can restore the SL dmg to one and then install SL on the other. Then if SL is working well, delete Leopard and the install partition altogether. That will work, right?

[SpliffyDLicious]

yeah- Thats the workaround and idea I believe. And as long as it doesn't wipe your primary operating system... that sounds like the process- good luck!

[DJJuzz]

Yeah unfortunately I don't have an external drive big enough to boot from. The biggest I have is a 4gb USB stick. Thanks for the quick reply.

[DJJuzz]

Hey spliffy, I'm having the same problem as ammarsoccer. I can't click the plus sign to add to the current partition, I have to change the scheme from current to 2 or 3 partitions, but then it tells me that I will be deleting Mac HD and have 3 blank partitions. How can I keep the original Mac HD in tact? Thanks.

[SpliffyDLicious]

well.... you know... you don't really need to make the partitions like I did. That was just my way. All you need is to make a bootable partition SOMEWHERE. so, what I mean by this is that you could use another drive (firewire) and just place the install partition there.

[SpliffyDLicious]

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Ex: I have an install partition on my laptop so I can run diagnostics, installs and crap on other people's machines. (booting their mac from my laptop's install partition) This is the same logic as putting it on an external. This is the same process used my apple stores. Lemmie know if you don't have an external drive. If thats the case, I'll look deeper into this partition issue. What I can say is that I remember a work around for it... but it involved some anxiety until found, lol.

[Eleft]

I just get the option of format Mac OS Plus , extended journaled not appearing :S:S

[SpliffyDLicious]

Never heard of it

[96leung]

i can't install it, it says Filesystem verify or repair failed.

PLZ HELP

[SpliffyDLicious]

not to be rude here, but did you read my earlier reply? Cause your comment here doesn't explain any more detail or mention that you've looked into the issue.

get

another

copy

:D

[96leung]

but it says :Filesystem verify or repair failed, then i can't open it plz help, HELP

[SpliffyDLicious]

if that is happening when you attempt to mount the dmg, this is likely because the dmg itself is not complete or is corrupt in some way. Sorry to say, but you may need another file.

[ammarsoccer]

in disk utility I cannot find the little plus sign, even if I choose 2 partitions from the drop down menu - I cannot change the name or size. please help

[SpliffyDLicious]

hmmm.

I'm going to try and reply to you personally. Look in your member messages area (if youtube has such a thing?) I just don't want to publish my chat info or I'll be blown up with all sorts of support questions, lol. One minute.

[Mke9129]

Thanks alot, ive been trying to upgrade forever getting so frusterated when all I had to do was drag the mounted .dmg, not the dmg itself. Thanks

[SpliffyDLicious]

Cheers-

[gwbm]

hii, when i click APPLY to the new partition it says: "partition failed, not enough space in the device" but i have 32G of free space, can you help

[SpliffyDLicious]

Ooo, bummer.

Okay. Try the obvious, yet annoying things. Reboot. Try again.  You could also put the install image onto a bootable external drive, say firewire. Otherwise, I'm really not sure. what to say. You really only need to make a 10GB partition ...

[maxair95]

Thanks to your video, I'v successfully installed SL using your method. But now can I safely delete my Leopard partition to gain back free space?

[SpliffyDLicious]

yep... assuming you've cloned it for safekeeping or not. Just that you've thought about it. But, yes. Once you're loaded and running 10.6, you do not "need" the other bootable partition.

Cheers-

[julitoculito]

I love pickles!

I was hoping you could help me spliffy.

I have a macbook pro with bootcamp running xp and and my mac osx, I want to upgrade my osx to snow leopard doing a complete wipe of the data off the old osx so it's a clean start with snow leopard, while keeping xp. I have the snow leopard dmg on my compuer (no disc) what's he best way to do this? Thanks so much for your time =)

[SpliffyDLicious]

Great question.

In this case, follow the example exactly, installing SL onto the Empty partition. Once done, you will have a triple-boot system (10.5, 10.6 & Win)

Once at triple boot, you set the new 10.6 partition as your boot. Once booted, you can simply erase the 10.5 partition freeing yourself from that old version, and all of the associated files.

Note: you should make a bootable copy of that 10.5 install incase you have any issues.

[SpliffyDLicious]

@Chlaai3

you need the install DVD to be the startup drive- so, yes there are ways to do that... However, this tutorial is design for two reasons.

1.). It is universal

2.) it is guaranteed

this process creates an actual start up partition rather than attempting to boot from a mounted image ( which will fail ) and create a hassle.

This is actually straight from apple, just put into action rather than reading a help file.

Cheers. :D

[chlaai3]

can i not just install after i mount the disk....can i do that? and if not...why?

[Fgper]

thank you , the best video of installing snow l ever,, been looking this for hours!!

[emiscy]

very cool contribution to humanity! thanks! really! i mean it!

[music2303]

if i have data on my external hardrive when i partion, it will it erase all data stored ?? i dont want to lose my data..

[SpliffyDLicious]

You can choose to erase or not erase the partitions when making them.

When you press "apply" it will bring a prompt asking you to confirm the operation. In the prompt, you will see the action confirmation: what will be erased, and what will not be... and you can cancel if needed.

[mschinis]

nice tut lol.. also love the music.. ;)

[MiniBuu]

Very nice. Spliffy.

[SpliffyDLicious]

thank you!

PICKLES!!!!!