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Backup your supplied Leopard restore DVDs to hard disk (bootable)
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<blockquote data-quote="mattblack" data-source="post: 584722" data-attributes="member: 46730"><p>Hey I found this post:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54975" target="_blank">http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54975</a></p><p></p><p>Which shows you how to backup your *Tiger* restore DVDs to a disk/partition in order that you may boot from the disk/partition to which you restored them, treating it as if it were the DVDs supplied with your Mac.</p><p></p><p>This also works in Leopard (I have a Santa Rosa Macbook). Here is a simplified version:</p><p></p><p>1/ open terminal and do (pay attention to upper and lower cases!!)</p><p></p><p>[CODE]defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles true[/CODE]</p><p></p><p><PRESS RETURN></p><p></p><p>2/ open terminal (if you closed it before) and do:</p><p></p><p>[CODE]killall Finder[/CODE]</p><p></p><p><PRESS RETURN></p><p></p><p>3/ Format a disk/partition with HFS+ extended to 20Gb, and rename it to "Mac OS X Install Disc 2" making sure all upper and lower case letters look the same as here.</p><p></p><p>4/ Insert the DVD "Mac OS X Install Disc 1" and *RESTORE* it to the partition using Disk Utility</p><p></p><p>5/ Insert "Mac OS X Install Disc 2" and browse it, then copy over the files/folders *HIGHLIGHTED* below, to the *ROOT* of the partition:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i29.tinypic.com/2r2ske0.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>6/ open terminal and do:</p><p></p><p>[CODE] defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles false[/code]</p><p></p><p><PRESS RETURN></p><p></p><p>[CODE]killall Finder[/CODE]</p><p></p><p><PRESS RETURN></p><p></p><p>Job done. You may now boot from this disk/partition and restore your Mac, as if you had the physical DVDs inserted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mattblack, post: 584722, member: 46730"] Hey I found this post: [URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54975"]http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54975[/URL] Which shows you how to backup your *Tiger* restore DVDs to a disk/partition in order that you may boot from the disk/partition to which you restored them, treating it as if it were the DVDs supplied with your Mac. This also works in Leopard (I have a Santa Rosa Macbook). Here is a simplified version: 1/ open terminal and do (pay attention to upper and lower cases!!) [CODE]defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles true[/CODE] <PRESS RETURN> 2/ open terminal (if you closed it before) and do: [CODE]killall Finder[/CODE] <PRESS RETURN> 3/ Format a disk/partition with HFS+ extended to 20Gb, and rename it to "Mac OS X Install Disc 2" making sure all upper and lower case letters look the same as here. 4/ Insert the DVD "Mac OS X Install Disc 1" and *RESTORE* it to the partition using Disk Utility 5/ Insert "Mac OS X Install Disc 2" and browse it, then copy over the files/folders *HIGHLIGHTED* below, to the *ROOT* of the partition: [IMG]http://i29.tinypic.com/2r2ske0.png[/IMG] 6/ open terminal and do: [CODE] defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles false[/code] <PRESS RETURN> [CODE]killall Finder[/CODE] <PRESS RETURN> Job done. You may now boot from this disk/partition and restore your Mac, as if you had the physical DVDs inserted. [/QUOTE]
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