Install Leopard on Mac WITHOUT the DVD Part 1 of 2

[123456789dulys]

Does the retail apple store have the iMac that he is using

[bkeving2]

Sounds like he's high as fuck

[strangegroovin]

Sounds like you got a big ol' dip in.

[rmx77]

the reason it wont read the dual layer dvd is that the dvd burner in the mac was from the time it would only read dvd-r and not dvd+r i have that issue with my powermac g4 quicksilver so all the copies of tiger i have wont read or install and i cant use my copy of leopard cause its an upgrade copy only and if i install a new hd i have to have tiger installed first or else the leopard upgrade dvd says tiger isnt installed and the installation wont continue

[randyyean]

The problem is that the DVD drive is faulty for the emac.

[NelsonC623]

can i download Snow Leopard by placing the torrent in a USB also?

[DieselWild]

why cant i drag anything on my destination

[Corganfuzz]

@DvdXploitr

SUCESS!!!!!

It was the SL dvd I found on the torrents...I got the real 7.3 or something GB image...put it on a usb boot it from the usb with the commands at hints.macworld.com and PRESTO!!!! Leopard Installation working....AVOID THE SINGLE LAYER DVD Thanks for the inspiration dude

[DvdXploitr]

@Corganfuzz Yea, i knew you could install from USB, in fact the new MacBook Air uses a USB drive for its recovery files…Apple is considering doing that with all its software so it may not be too long before OS X is distributed via USB thumb drive. It makes more since considering USB is faster than the DVD-ROM. I did not have a USB drive to test the install with or I would have done that too

[Corganfuzz]

How did u partitioned the hardrive when I do it ...they options for partitioning are greyed out?....it's bootcamp the solution ?

[DvdXploitr]

@Corganfuzz well, this was done on a PowerPC Mac so Bootcamp wasn't an option on there…..I can't even remember how I did this..I did it that one time for this video LOL

[Corganfuzz]

@DvdXploitr I'm about to give up.....I wonder if I shoulda burn the leopard cd installation on a real mac instead of a pc using Transmac

[DvdXploitr]

@Corganfuzz Yea, you have to burn it on a Mac….some may say different but from personal experience, burning a Mac OS on a Windows PC just never worked with me, I tried Transmac as well…I actually got Leopard burned by using my Dell laptop as a Hackintosh….

[Corganfuzz]

@DvdXploitr still don't remember how to partitioned that drive?....any hints ? I'm running that good ol' tiger OSX....man this thing sucks

[DvdXploitr]

@Corganfuzz Right now I am on OS X 10.7 Lion, but I opened up Disk Utility and selected the drive and wen to Partition, highlight your main partition (I currently have 2 on mine, one for OS X and the other for Bootcamp since I am on Intel Mac), once you select your main partition, there are buttons at the bottom with a + and -, click the + one, it will create a new partition, select it and change the size and hit Apply…it SHOULD work….I just did this on my OS to test it and it worked for me

[mishokorlov]

Thanks bro!!!!

[DvdXploitr]

@mishokorlov no problem! glad it could help! It has definitely come in handy with that particular machine b/c it didn't read dual-layer DVD-Rs! was a pain in the butt to get it to that machine!

[1234567abc3]

@DvdXploitr What do I type in the fucking terminal

[1234567abc3]

@DvdXploitr Can I do a 4.7 GB disk

[DvdXploitr]

@1234567abc3 the Leopard disc is over 4.7GB, which is why it can't be done on a single layer disc, this requires you to partition. some sites do have the single layer version of Leopard, such as demonoid, but i never could get it to work, it just sat there and tried to read the disk and kept spinning and spinning without loading...