[UnaClocker]

Noob Friendly Tutorial:
First, watch the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui26Ggca4yM&fmt=18

To make your OSX Leopard install thumb drive (must be 8gb or better):
You will need access to an Intel Mac (PPC Disk Utility is broken)

On a Mac, insert the thumb drive into a USB port. Insert the Leopard DVD.
Open Disk Utility
Click on the Leopard DVD on the left.
Then click New Disk Image from the icons at the top row of Disk Utility
Agree to the defaults and let it go.
When it's done, the top menu bar (top of the screen) click Images, click Scan for Restore, and find the image you just created. Let it scan the image.
When that is done, click on the thumb drive on the left, you want to click on it's partition, that's the one below where it says the brand and size of the drive.
On the right will appear a tab that says "Restore" Click that.
Source: Click Image, and find the DMG you just created.
For Destination, drag that partition from your thumb drive on the left to this opening.
Check the box for "Erase Destination", and click restore.
Your drive has to be at least 8gb. This should also work with USB hard drives and the like.
When that's done, your OSX drive should pop up it's own finder window. Close that, eject the drive.

To make the Type11 (Boot132) Boot drive (128mb or better):
You will need access to a Windows machine.

* Format the USB stick in the FAT32 format.
* Download Syslinux 3.63
* Expand that zipfile. In the win32 subdirectory there is an executable called syslinux.exe. At the command line, run syslinux -ma f: (assuming F: is the drive letter referring to your freshly formatted USB stick; replace with the correct one if necessary)
* Copy the contents of the Type11 ISO file (not the image itself) to the USB stick, taking care not to overwrite anything that syslinux put on the USB stick (it only placed one file on the stick)
* You now have a bootable Type11 (Boot132).

Insert the Leopard thumb drive into a USB slot on the right hand side of the Mini9, and insert the Boot132 thumb drive into a slot on the left. Turn on the machine, make sure USB Legacy is Enabled in the BIOS. Press 0 while booting to get the boot menu, choose USB Drive, you should see some SYSLINUX text zipping across the screen, when you get a prompt, hit enter. You'll proceed to boot up into the Leopard installer.

See the Type11 install method for the rest of the instructions.

[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???????????????????????
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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.