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Create a hard-drive based OS X installer
Authored by: droll on Jan 04, '06 08:14:54AM

Great hint. You can also just use apple disk utility to restore directly from your install disk to your install partition. Under the restore tab just drag the install disk to the source and the install partition to the destination hit restore and go.



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Create a hard-drive based OS X installer
Authored by: giskard22 on Jan 04, '06 08:20:56AM

Took the words right out of my mouth, except the "great hint" part. :-)

Seriously, this is a ridiculous hint and should be deleted. You don't need any of these extra steps involving NetRestore. All of Apple's installers (including the bootable OS disks) can be copied using plain old read-only disk images. Simply use Disk Utility/asr to "restore" it to a hard drive partition, and you're done. You could also, as the parent comment said, copy directly without any intermediate disk image.



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Create a hard-drive based OS X installer
Authored by: sixthring on Jan 04, '06 10:50:54AM

Actually this is not true. Using disk Utility alone does not always work for creating an bootable install HD that works on every machine. His method works on everything all the way back to G3 blue and whites.



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Create a hard-drive based OS X installer
Authored by: zpjet on Jan 04, '06 11:13:21AM

yes, you're right, i've just did the same. the only small downside is that i can't connect the fw disk and run the installer to be rebooted and start installing, like from the dvd. instead, i have to boot from the disk first. not a big deal tho'...



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