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10.4: Install OS X without first rebooting from DVD
Authored by: finne on Dec 28, '05 12:17:59AM
This did work with previous versions of the OS X install discs, but for multiple discs you would have to boot into the half-way installed system and finish of the installation.

I have performed this with 10.2 and 10.3. However, I think in 10.4 the installer became pickier about how it wants to run: when booted in 10.1 I could install 10.2, and from 10.2 I could install 10.3. But when booted from 10.3 I could not install 10.4 on another partition: it seems the 10.4 installer requires 10.4... so in that case you have to boot from the disc first.

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10.4: Install OS X without first rebooting from DVD
Authored by: dotgray on Dec 28, '05 04:23:02PM

Actually, you can also install 10.3 and earlier with multi-disc sets using the OSInstall.mpkg workaround as well. Just create compressed disk images through Disk Utility, mount them all, and then run the OSInstall package. I used this to re-install an iBook via Target disk mode, since it wouldn't boot from the stock 10.3 CD due to system version.

This also seems to work with at least some other multi-disk installers such as the Adobe Creative Suite; besides saving on disk shuffle/inventory hassle, the install is also notably faster than off the original media.



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