[klongwood]

Originally Posted by murfy++

well its my girlfriends macbook so i don't really know the in's and outs of it...(never used a mac before ) i do believe it's an intel. it has an intel processor listed in "about this mac." It's one of the "older" solid white macbook laptops (one that came out right before the new ones with the "no button" mouse) it's running tiger (i don't know if that would affect it) ... but i am pretty sure (95%) it was because i wasn't using a retail version of osX. Being the dumb dumb that i am i have been trying to avoid it. But...i have it on order from my school bookstore. (only $69!!! ) so hopefully it will be in by next week sometime. I have been trying to get it for a week now but with a price like $69 its has been flying off the shelf.

If it turns out that the mac i have wont work, The computer lab at my school has a few desktops set up.


the macbook im using looks like this http://www.amitbhawani.com/Images/macbook-Amit.jpg

You have an Intel Macbook - you're safe.

[risingsun]

hello everyone. i'm japanese
sorry for my strange english.

so, i want to try USB Install.
i have a retail copy of Leopard.
but i don't have "Intel Mac".

how can i make Leopard .iso?

please help me

[klongwood]

Originally Posted by risingsun

hello everyone. i'm japanese
sorry for my strange english.

so, i want to try USB Install.
i have a retail copy of Leopard.
but i don't have "Intel Mac".

how can i make Leopard .iso?

please help me

?????Intel????USB?????????????????
??????????????????????.iso???????????????DVD?????? ??????

[risingsun]

Originally Posted by klongwood

?????Intel????USB?????????????????
??????????????????????.iso???????????????DVD?????? ??????

?????????????????????
?????????????????

???PPC????????????????????

??????????????????????trancemac????USB???????????? ????????????????????
?????trancemac???????????????????????
????
Re: How to: USB Install (no DVD drive) (#p30278)
by charlie66 on Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:53 pm
I created an dmg file of the OS X installer on my iMac PPC. After, I copied that file to
my USB key.
I used Transmac to copied that dmg file to my Thinkpad. I needed to umcompressed
the dmg file and
then used the uncompressed dmg to format my USB key.
But when I selected 81 at the boot process, my USB Key wasnot recognize as a OS X
installer.
Maybe my USB key is bad.

????boot process?80-83??????????????????????????????????????

mini9??????????????????????????????
?????????????????

[jredef]

No files were put into the USB after I ran the command.

Is that normal?

[mechdrew]

Originally Posted by jredef

No files were put into the USB after I ran the command.

Is that normal?

You probably can't see the file because it is hidden. Try to boot from it and see if it works.

[jredef]

Originally Posted by mechdrew

You probably can't see the file because it is hidden. Try to boot from it and see if it works.

Thanks, I'll try it out. Also thanks for the reply in the other thread, just saw it a min ago.

[esquilax]

I'm having a little trouble getting my sticks to boot. I'm using two Patriot Xporter XT Boost sticks, a 4 GB for the boot ISO, and a 16 GB for the DVD image. I can only get the machine to boot off the boot ISO stick if I enable legacy usb bios mode in the Mini 9 BIOS (running A04 now, 16 GB SSD, 1 GB factory RAM). When it does come up, it says something like:

Loading /initrd.img........................................ ....

And then it wipes the screen and flashes this for a split second:

System Config file '/com.apple.boot.S/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist' not found

Then it wipes the screen again and says this:

Use (up/down) keys to select the startup volume

hd(0,1)

Press Enter to start up the foreign OS.

hd(0,1) is the only option I'm presented with here. If I choose it, it says:

Calling chainbooter
Boot error

I can hit Enter here and start the whole thing over again. Is this a sign of blowing the boot ISO USB key or the OS X DVD key?

[esquilax]

Nevermind, following the DellEFI guide now and seeing where I should have hit escape and typed that other address. Sorry!

[nicmalone]

OK. I have the Boot123 USB stick (lefthand side of Mini) successfully starting up the boot loader. However when I press enter to install OSX image from the USB stick with the restored Leopard image on it (righthand side of Mini), I get a screen saying:

loading cdfiles/retail.img........................................ ..............................................

then a screen saying:

Darwin/x86 boot etc
Select start up volume
- the only choice available here is "hd(0,1)"

EDIT: Okay didn't realise there more >1 page of comments and that I'd asked the same question as the last postee. I've also realised that you press Esc at the above point then type 81 or 82 to get it to boot from the larger USB stick containing the OSX installer image.

I'm now on the intalling progress bar but needed to do a clean install (i.e. delete the internal disk's contents) and remove EVERYTHING in the OSX install options (extra languages, print driver, X11 etc) to get OSX on my 8GB internal drive. Even so it only leaves 9MB! Guess I'll need to remove the PPC side of things.