Comments on: Install Leopard With An External Hard Drive http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/ Thu, 17 May 2012 23:15:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: BEcua http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-991 BEcua Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:18:29 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-991 Ok so this helped a lot, I was trying to install snow leopard on a 2006 macbook pro 15.4 because my mac hd had failed and would not boot, so I had to format and re-install, lost the original disc. got a disc 10.6.whatever that came with my brothers new 13 mac pro 2011, and of course got the cannot install on this mac message while trying to install. Anyway like suggested I used the snow disc to get to disc utility menu, got a hold of a 10.5 leopard .iso install file, used a partition on an external hard drive and turned that into a mac cd installation drive (using your instructions) but then even though it showed up as a boot disc when choosing disk to boot and restart off of, it would not actually come up when the comp restarted. So playing on your idea, I partitioned the internal clean mac HD, made it into 2 partitions 1 and 2, used the completed external drive partition in restore as the source and turned internal partition 2 into the mac 10.5 install drive. then shutdown comp, unplugged external, eject cd (using hold down both track pad buttons method) and while booting up, partition 2 internal booted up the install 10.5 process and gave me the option to install on internal partition 1 therefore fixing all my issues and re-installing a fresh osx on a clean drive, granted ill have to delete the extra partition, but after 5 hours and a lot of failure this finally worked for me, and even though I'm basically vomiting this out of my brain, it might hopefully help someone who did all of the stuff above you guys came up with, but still could not get the install to boot off of the external drive. Thanks again and sorry my excitement at getting this to work, refuses to make this an easy read. Ok so this helped a lot, I was trying to install snow leopard on a 2006 macbook pro 15.4 because my mac hd had failed and would not boot, so I had to format and re-install, lost the original disc. got a disc 10.6.whatever that came with my brothers new 13 mac pro 2011, and of course got the cannot install on this mac message while trying to install.

Anyway like suggested I used the snow disc to get to disc utility menu, got a hold of a 10.5 leopard .iso install file, used a partition on an external hard drive and turned that into a mac cd installation drive (using your instructions) but then even though it showed up as a boot disc when choosing disk to boot and restart off of, it would not actually come up when the comp restarted.

So playing on your idea, I partitioned the internal clean mac HD, made it into 2 partitions 1 and 2, used the completed external drive partition in restore as the source and turned internal partition 2 into the mac 10.5 install drive. then shutdown comp, unplugged external, eject cd (using hold down both track pad buttons method) and while booting up, partition 2 internal booted up the install 10.5 process and gave me the option to install on internal partition 1 therefore fixing all my issues and re-installing a fresh osx on a clean drive, granted ill have to delete the extra partition, but after 5 hours and a lot of failure this finally worked for me, and even though I’m basically vomiting this out of my brain, it might hopefully help someone who did all of the stuff above you guys came up with, but still could not get the install to boot off of the external drive.

Thanks again and sorry my excitement at getting this to work, refuses to make this an easy read.

]]> By: Diggles http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-986 Diggles Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:35:17 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-986 Thanks a million for the tutorial! I've been trying to figure this whole process out for nearly a year! I purchased my machine from ebay,(powermacG5 dual 1.8) with no start up discs(running Tiger) and couldn't get my FCP plugins to function properly. I read a few articles where people where having the same problem and upgrading to Leopard was the consensus. A friend gave me the Leopard install disc and the combo drive wouldn't read it. So I purchased an external drive and couldn't get it to boot. SOOOOOO let down! Long story short: Leopard is installing now! You are a gentleman and a scholar. Don't let anyone ever tell you any different. Thanks a million for the tutorial! I’ve been trying to figure this whole process out for nearly a year!

I purchased my machine from ebay,(powermacG5 dual 1.8) with no start up discs(running Tiger) and couldn’t get my FCP plugins to function properly. I read a few articles where people where having the same problem and upgrading to Leopard was the consensus. A friend gave me the Leopard install disc and the combo drive wouldn’t read it. So I purchased an external drive and couldn’t get it to boot. SOOOOOO let down!

Long story short:

Leopard is installing now!

You are a gentleman and a scholar.
Don’t let anyone ever tell you any different.

]]> By: Earl http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-985 Earl Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:06:51 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-985 My problem is that I have a PowerBook g4 with a broken cd drive, it just will not read anything. I have tried booting with a usb drive and there is no way this is working. SaucE method would work if my drive worked. Besides buying a firewire drive is there anyway to reinstall 10.5? Thank you so much in advance. My problem is that I have a PowerBook g4 with a broken cd drive, it just will not read anything. I have tried booting with a usb drive and there is no way this is working. SaucE method would work if my drive worked. Besides buying a firewire drive is there anyway to reinstall 10.5?

Thank you so much in advance.

]]> By: Linda http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-980 Linda Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:54:58 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-980 Hi I have a powerbook G4, and of course this doesn't work for me, because G4-s can't boot from a usb drive. My laptop is full of stuff, so I can't repartition it, and it doesn't let me split the existing partition. So it sucks, I have to buy the dvd. I've found used ones, and I can resell them after I installed it.. Hi
I have a powerbook G4, and of course this doesn’t work for me, because G4-s can’t boot from a usb drive. My laptop is full of stuff, so I can’t repartition it, and it doesn’t let me split the existing partition. So it sucks, I have to buy the dvd. I’ve found used ones, and I can resell them after I installed it..

]]> By: Andreas http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-964 Andreas Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:21:18 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-964 So I have a G4 iMac with 16 GB SSD, copying the Leopard iso to a Firewire hd doesn't work for me. After selecting it as startup disk it boot's into the 10.4 installation anyway. And booting from the 10.4 dvd won't let me select the Leopard iso, seems like only dmg's are selectable. I can however partition the SSD in half, install 10.4, and unlike the 10.4 dvd, the installation lets me select the iso and get a bootable Leopard install partition. The problem is, the other partition is so small I can't upgrade to 10.5.8 after installing as it requires 5-6GB free space. Any suggestions? So I have a G4 iMac with 16 GB SSD, copying the Leopard iso to a Firewire hd doesn’t work for me. After selecting it as startup disk it boot’s into the 10.4 installation anyway. And booting from the 10.4 dvd won’t let me select the Leopard iso, seems like only dmg’s are selectable. I can however partition the SSD in half, install 10.4, and unlike the 10.4 dvd, the installation lets me select the iso and get a bootable Leopard install partition. The problem is, the other partition is so small I can’t upgrade to 10.5.8 after installing as it requires 5-6GB free space.
Any suggestions?

]]> By: Jerry 82 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-962 Jerry 82 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:15:44 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-962 Hi Thank you so much for the thread.. It worked perfectly for me ! I had Powerpc G5. Lost my OS in an attempt to dual boot with Ubuntu. Wanted to restore Mac 10.5 .. Had a hel lot of time as my powerpc had no dual layer DVD reader ! Finally got an old external hard disk from friend. But then while trying to restore the image OS to disk it was not detecting ... Finally got the solution by renaming it from .iso to .dmg. Then everything went perfectly well ... Thanks again Hi

Thank you so much for the thread.. It worked perfectly for me !

I had Powerpc G5. Lost my OS in an attempt to dual boot with Ubuntu. Wanted to restore Mac 10.5 .. Had a hel lot of time as my powerpc had no dual layer DVD reader ! Finally got an old external hard disk from friend. But then while trying to restore the image OS to disk it was not detecting …

Finally got the solution by renaming it from .iso to .dmg.

Then everything went perfectly well …

Thanks again

]]> By: johnwwwatson http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-957 johnwwwatson Sun, 02 Oct 2011 07:52:18 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-957 PS: I used an external HD with FireWire to PowerBook G4 (updating my friends old beauty). PS: I used an external HD with FireWire to PowerBook G4 (updating my friends old beauty).

]]> By: johnwwwatson http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-956 johnwwwatson Sun, 02 Oct 2011 07:44:52 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-956 Crazy good! 4 years later and your help is still good. I too had an issue, it would not restart from external HD until I copied install dmg from external HD to target HD, then erased external HD with disk utility and followed your instructions to a T. Thank you. Crazy good! 4 years later and your help is still good.
I too had an issue, it would not restart from external HD until I copied install dmg from external HD to target HD, then erased external HD with disk utility and followed your instructions to a T. Thank you.

]]> By: Quinard Lee http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-955 Quinard Lee Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:15:59 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-955 I seem to be having problems.. I have the mac os x leopard dmg file on my flash drive. It restores and all and then I go to the Start Up section in disk utilites and when i press restart It doesnt restart. PLEASE HELP I seem to be having problems.. I have the mac os x leopard dmg file on my flash drive. It restores and all and then I go to the Start Up section in disk utilites and when i press restart It doesnt restart. PLEASE HELP

]]> By: UM ER http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-949 UM ER Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:17:25 +0000 http://liveslick.com/2007/12/28/install-leopard-with-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-949 I have been following developments with Hard drives and OS X, I have been playing around with my Macbook pro mid 2010 and I have found that just make a back up and then go ahead read these posts for advice and direction as a maybe you can do it this way . I have installed and run snow leopard from a usb hard drive with no probe and one partition formatted for mac I just plugged in the drive and put the disc in the mac run start up and install , then I chose the usb drive then installed it strait on the drive I can boot up in snow leopard from power up or start up disc , all pluged drives show up ,,,,,,, and I can access all data on it like a portable hard drive and vis versa in Finder I can even boot up a windows machine with iboot and empire efi but not all pc work with this . hope this helps I have been following developments with Hard drives and OS X,
I have been playing around with my Macbook pro mid 2010
and I have found that just make a back up and then go ahead
read these posts for advice and direction as a maybe you can do it this way .
I have installed and run snow leopard from a usb hard drive with no probe and one partition formatted for mac I just plugged in the drive and put the disc in the mac run start up and install , then I chose the usb drive then installed it strait on the drive
I can boot up in snow leopard from power up or start up disc , all pluged drives show up ,,,,,,, and I can access all data on it like a portable hard drive and vis versa in Finder I can even boot up a windows machine with iboot and empire efi
but not all pc work with this . hope this helps

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