[jackpollard]

I do not have access to a Mac, is there anyway to do a USB install if I don't have access?

Thanks

[joyork]

Yes.

You need transmac. Read the guide a few times.

[mechdrew]

Here's a link: Old Guide | DellEFI | mechdrew
You'll want to look at Parts G & I. G describes the older method to installing via Windows (I haven't come up with a good replacement yet so I've held off rewriting it.) The only problem is that most 8 GB drives lack 100 or 200 MB to fit the whole DVD this way, so you'll want to use 16 GB if possible. If you must use 8 GB, there is a way, which is described in Part I, but it is very tricky and more likely to fail.

[SnakeGirl]

joyork,

Originally Posted by joyork

You need transmac. Read the guide a few times.

What is transmac?

[postaL]

transmac is a program that runs on windows that emulates the mac file structure. if you're a torrent user you may find it there.

i did my osx install w/o a mac. i used a 16gb usb drive, retail osx dvd, and transmac. make a .dmg of the iso using transmac, then use it to image to the usb drive.

gluck.

[Patrick]

so the OSX disc has to be formated as a .dgm or .iso?

[dad2ways]

Or you can use TransMac to launch DiskUtilities and do a "Restore" using the OS X Retail DVD as the source and your USB stick as the target.

I did this the first time I setup the USB stick to install OS X on my Mini 9. Of course, I didn't use Transmac, since I already had several Macs in my home.

[ls3mach]

Originally Posted by dad2ways

Or you can use TransMac to launch DiskUtilities and do a "Restore" using the OS X Retail DVD as the source and your USB stick as the target.

I did this the first time I setup the USB stick to install OS X on my Mini 9. Of course, I didn't use Transmac, since I already had several Macs in my home.

Can you elaborate on this? I have transmac installed and an OSX.dmg. I didn't see restore anywhere in the options. Also can I use my Runcore to restore to.

Thanks

[chrisjasper]

You dont use transmac to launch diskutilities, its a mac program.
You use transmac to format the usb drive using the disk image file.

Right click on the usb disk in transmac then choose format\format from disk image and pick your image file.
If its a compressed image file (most likely) then it will ask you where to save the uncompressed image to work from, so make sure you have enough space to accomodate the 7 and a half Gb of disk space it will take up on your windows PC.

It will then format your usb drive as a pseudo mac install DVD.