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Mac Forum / General / General / December 2007Installing from a hard drive
I want to experiment and install from an external drive so its faster. If I make a mistake, an erase and install should be a lot faster. Also, I want to try taking stuff off the install image to see if it still functions. Has anyone been able to install the OS from an external USB or Firewire hard drive instead of the DVD? > I want to experiment and install from an external drive so its faster. > If I make a mistake, an erase and install should be a lot faster. Also, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Has anyone been able to install the OS from an external USB or Firewire > hard drive instead of the DVD? Which OS? Instructions for converting a Tiger DVD to a disk partition were posted some time ago. I tried it and it worked, but I didn't save the directions when I moved to Leopard since I only have the upgrade DVD and not the retail product.  SignatureTom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF > > I want to experiment and install from an external drive so its faster. > > If I make a mistake, an erase and install should be a lot faster. Also, [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > the directions when I moved to Leopard since I only have the upgrade DVD > and not the retail product. I need it for Leopard but perhaps if that hasn't been done yet I could try it with Tiger. I couldn't find any posts regarding this in the last 10,000. > > > I want to experiment and install from an external drive so its faster. > > > If I make a mistake, an erase and install should be a lot faster. Also, [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > try it with Tiger. I couldn't find any posts regarding this in the last > 10,000. Look here <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051227162152292&query=tig er%2Bhard%2Bdisk%2Binstall>. SignatureTom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF > I want to experiment and install from an external drive so its faster. > If I make a mistake, an erase and install should be a lot faster. Also, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Has anyone been able to install the OS from an external USB or Firewire > hard drive instead of the DVD? Yes, works like a champ and _much_ faster than the DVD for installing n other disks. However, the longest part of any install will still be copying files from a previous user, if you do that. The basics for 10.5 (if that's what you really wanted to know): Make a ~10GB partition on an external FW drive. With Disk Utility, make a .cdr disk image (that's DVD/CD Master disk format) on your internal boot drive (or wherever else you want to put it except the target installer partition). Again with DU, 'Restore' the .cdr to the installer partition. Mount the installer partition and make sure the mounted name is exactly the same as the real installer disk. More detail is available in this MacFixIt article: How to Clone the Tiger Installer DVD to a FireWire Drive <http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070705094933652> just ignore the cautions for 10.4 and having to use a PPC Mac. --Fred |
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