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Create a hard-drive based OS X installer
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Mar 28, '07 09:05:59PM

That process is essentially the same as everyone describes above, with the interesting variation of being booted from the install CD itself when you image and restore that very CD. Maybe in some cases this makes the resulting volume happier.



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Create a hard-drive based OS X installer
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Mar 30, '07 01:18:27AM

I mathOne's technique tonight, using an OS 10.4.3 installer DVD in a Quicksilver, but I couldn't get Disk Utility to copy the disk image to the destination drive--it reported "no such directory". So I just told Disk Utility to directly restore the booted OS 10.4.3 installer DVD to the destination drive, and that worked--after the restore/copy, the destination drive booted successfully. I disconnected it from the Quicksilver, put it into a Firewire enclosure, connected that to a dual G5, and installed OS 10.4.3 onto the G5 in about fifteen minutes. No more worries about scratched DVDs! Prior to this, I'd had limited success with using Disk Utility to restore/copy my OS 10.4 installer DVDs to this drive before--usually it would boot after the copy, but then fail to be a bootable drive later--so I don't know if the same problem will happen with it this time.



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