Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'Create a hard-drive based OS X installer' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
Create a hard-drive based OS X installer
Authored by: klondike x on Mar 19, '06 12:52:05PM

Tried to go through this method with my G3 iBook. I'd get as far as being able to see the bootable volume when I hold down 'option' at restart, but upon selecting it, I can hear the firewire drive start to spin, but then my iBook proceeds to just shut down. Was I also supposed to install an OS onto the firewire drive before going through the above procedure? If so, would it have to be onto every partition I'm applying an installer disk image to? I had just assumed that it wouldn't need an OS because I was essentially cloning the disc, but maybe I misunderstood. Anyone else run into this?



[ Reply to This | # ]
Create a hard-drive based OS X installer
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Mar 28, '07 09:02:53PM

I don't know what would have caused the shutdown problem, but no, you don't have to preinstall OS X onto any of the partitions that you're going to be installing the disc image onto--installing the disc image is what will install the OS onto those partitions, and in fact will wipe whatever's already there.



[ Reply to This | # ]