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Create a hard-drive based OS X installer
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Dec 20, '07 05:55:31PM

I've recently read that another way to get a hard drive-based OS X installer, doesn't require creating separate bootable OS X installer partitions--just copy a disk image of an OS X installer DVD to a normal bootable drive whose boot system is the same or a later version of OS X as the installer DVD (since the Installer app that will run to do the OS X install, needs to be the proper version for the version of OS X that's being installed), then boot from that drive's normal system, mount the OS X installer disk image, then run, from the mounted disk image, System/Installation/Packages/OSinstall.mpkg.

I tried this, using one of my Firewire utility drives to hold the OS X 10.4.6 installer DVD disk image, installing onto a Mac mini G4 1.33 GHz, but it didn't work for me, though I've tried it only once. The installation process went OK, but the resulting installation wouldn't boot past the Apple logo on a white screen--not even a spinning activity indicator showed.

So, I went back to the "old" method described in this hint, installing from a hard drive that contains a bootable copy of the same OS 10.4.6 installer DVD as failed using the mounted installer disk image method I describe above, and that worked.

I suppose the mounted disk image method may work for some people some of the time, but I'd rather use a method that works for most people most of the time.



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