Mac Os X 10.5 Install Dvd Dmg
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That only works if you own one.Furthermore, it's not like optical drives never fail...Being able to boot from a USB keychain-style flash drive is a seriously useful thing.This not only allows for installations from USB drives (flash or otherwise), but running repair/recovery utilities from them as well.
Wait, I'm confused. I've never had trouble installing Leopard on a PPC Mac that didn't have a Dual Layer SuperDrive, or even a Mac only containing a Combo Drive. A modern SuperDrive is only required for burning Dual Layer discs. Any drive that can read DVDs can read one with multiple layers.---- Ben RosenthalMacBook Pro 2.8GHz - Snow Leopard
This saved my day!! I have a late-model 1.67GHz Powerbook which was ruined beyond Disk Utility's reach, due to a frozen OS update that forced me to power down. I have no Firewire drives, Time Machine backup, blank DVDs, etc. All I had was a Leopard DMG sitting on my windows box and a 8GB USB drive laying around. I was successfully able to use this method to restore my computer and sanity!Here are some tidbits from my experience:-The USB had to be formatted as MACOS Extended, not Journaled. Otherwise, I only had 6.4GB usable space for a 6.7GB DMG file.-The restore step took about 20min for me, as did the OS installation (trimmed of language and printer driver options)-For me, the location of the bootable USB was /pci@f2000000/usb@15,1/disk@1. I mention this because the ",1" was easy to miss on my machine and was needed.-The BootX location provided in this post was spot-on for my 10.5.6 image.I can't thank you enough for the time and hassle you saved me! Also, it was fun using OF mode for the second time.
Just followed this guide to get 10.5 installing on a G4 mac mini. Gold advice!Some notes: I created a CDR of the install DVD, but was unable to restore with it. I ended up re-partitioning my USB stick using Apple Partition Map, then restored the DVD on it directly.FWIW, using a non-apple KB with the windows key it was ctrl-win-o-f to get openfirmware up.
The above post saved my behind: PPC Mac Mini G4-For me, the location of the bootable USB was /pci@f2000000/usb@1b,1/disk@1.The ",1" was indeed very easy to miss on my machine and was needed.-The BootX location provided in this post was spot-on for my 10.5.X image - I'm not sure what it was but I believe it was a very early CD I made the image from.OSX is installing now! Many thanks!
Dear Users, I have spent days trying to install leopard and think this guide is extremely good but I have a bit of a problem. on step 9, every time i type in the command "dev / 1s", the mac then replies with "unknown word". I have also tried reversing the slashes and when i type "dev \ 1s" the mac replies with "can't find device \ 1s, unknown word". i have no idea why this is happening and would appreciate help from anyone who wishes to give it.Thank you.iMac g5, 1.6GHz, 768mb ram, Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger
Seems to be working for me now: the 10.5 installer is running on my G4 tower. I set up a USB drive with nothing on it but the 10.5 ISO, so there were no partitions, so I needed "ud:,\System\Library\..."I thought there might be a simpler way, considering that I already had 10.4 running -- some way to say "next time, boot from the USB drive" -- but I haven't found such a way.In the meantime, I've learned about the existence of Open Firmware, started reading about it, and learned that it's a domain-specific dialect of Forth (who knew?!)
Worked perfectly for me. First try.In my case the device was: /ht@0,f2000000/pci@2/usb@b/disk@2Thanks !!!PS: The last minute of the installation takes for ever.PS2: The reboot now takes for ever too :-)
It seemed to work for me, but after waiting very very long for the last minute to pass, I then got the "ready to restart" screen. I pressed "restart now" and waited for 5min but it didn't reboot. So I pulled the plug. Powered on only to find a flashing folder icon. Now trying a second time to install and will try to be more patient.The path I had to use with devalias was:/ht@0,f2000000/pci@2/usb@b/disk@2
This is for anyone looking for a solution to installing Leopard on a Mac PPC that doesn't have a CD/DVD drive. I had the very same dilemma and after searching the internet for days, i stumbled upon the solution by myself. Maybe it's obvious or maybe not, but all External USB Hard drives are really just SATA/IDE hard disks cased in a metal box and given a usb port! Well, for this solution you will need any running version of Mac OSX leopard or snow, either on another mac, macbook or on the same machine you want to install in (if you're doing a re install) Use this running version to create a Mac OSX 10.5 image to the the external usb hd (DISK UTILITY>RESTORE) Now Shut down the mac. Physically open the external USB Drive and take out the SATA disk inside. (you may need a screw driver) Open the Mac casePlug the SATA drive inside the mac you want to install in, alongside the normal SATA drive already inside the machine.Start the machine while holding Option/ Alt until a menu shows up. And Voila! you can now install Mac OSX Leopard 10.5, and faster than a DVD install i might add.With no DVD drive! No External Firewire drive! USB not an option because of PPC! But where there is a will the there is a way!
I am a PC guy for many many years but a complete Mac n00b. I got a G5 iMac from my brother-in law that had puked the hard drive. Of course, he had lost the install DVD in a flood this summer. Arg.I obtained a disk image of the Leopard DVD, but experienced much frustration as the drive does not read dual layer DVD. I tried a pared-down disk image on DVD-R, but no luck there. It just hung at the Apple and pinwheel.Ultimately, my solution also involved another Mac. I popped a new 500 GB SATA hard drive into a USB enclosure, connected to my Windows box, and placed the .dmg on it. I connected it to the Mac Mini, and copied the file to the desktop. From there, I just wiped the SATA drive using Disk Utility, and created two APM-formatted partitions- one 20GB to hold the image and leave some extra space, and another one using the rest of the disk. From Disk Utility, I verified and then used Restore to copy the image to the 20 GB partition. Since my G5 does not have the camera, removing the back to swap the hard drive was a cinch. At first it would not read it at all, and I then discovered that I needed to jumper the SATA drive to 1.5 GBps. Once I did that, I booted using the Option key, selected the image partition, and installed to larger partition. Bang! For someone who has the very last iMac G5 with the camera, disassembly is more of an impediment. But getting to the guts of the earlier model could not be easier. Three screws on the lower edge of the unit and the back comes right off. If you have one of these this method is a slam dunk.
Great post, many thanks. It was a real lifesaver. I had inherited an early model G5 with Tiger (10.4) and a single layer DVD drive. I managed to track down an ISO image of Leopard but couldn't figure out how to install it until I found your post.A couple of clarifications that may help others:Step 4: Drag the DMG file if that's what you have. (This may be obvious but I'm a Mac noob, so wasn't sure).Step 7: You want the partition for the destination drive (the one you copied the image to in Step 4). The instruction in the original post is a little confusing.Step 9: You'll see a long list. I had to go to the second page in the list to see my device. The root of the path was much longer than "ht" (something like "ht03,f2000000" - sorry, I didn't write it down). You have to use the entire string. In the example, "disk@2" is a child of "usb@b" - it will appear nested under usb@b in the listing (the example makes it look like it's at the same level).Step 11: The first dir command only shows you the top level path. The second example is the one you want to use.After installing Leopard, run Software Update to get further updates to the OS and other Apply software on your machine (Safari, iTunes, etc.). You may have to run Software Update a couple of times. to get everything.Thanks again. My Mac is very happy to be getting this update.
Great Article.I've already done this (thanks to this and other articles) back in February. I recently dropped my laptop again (doh!), and have had try to do this again.Last time I succeeded, and this time I'm failing. The only difference in my method between last time and this is that I have a different external drive. Last time, I used a 160 gig desktop drive in USB enclosure, and this time I'm trying to use a WD 1 terabyte drive.My trouble is that when I "dev ls", as per point 9. of this article, I don't get a "/Disk@1" showing up for the 1tb drive. Just to be sure it wasn't a different problem, I formatted a USB stick to Mac OSX Extended, and looked for it in Open Firmware, and it did indeed show up as a "/Disk@1".(I restored the .dmg of 10.5 onto the USB stick, and tried booting from that, but my laptop kept giving me the "Circlebar" no-go symbol. Researching around on the web, it appears that flash sticks sometimes can't keep up with the computer's boot demands.)Does anyone know why this would be? Like I said, nothing I've done has changed except the external drive.One little difference I wonder about is that the first (successful) usb boot happened on a drive installed with Mac OSX Extended (not journaled), and the WD drive itself defies formatting that way. When I try to format it as MOSXE using Disk Utility, I click on the physical drive in the left hand column, and it formats, creating a single partition on the physical drive, which it displays as a "child" underneath the physical drive. When I browse the physical drive again using Disk Utility (by clicking on the erase or partition tab), the WD physical drive shows up as MOSXE(journaled) and not simply MOSXE.Could this have anything to do with why the drive won't show up under a usb device when I "dev ls" in Open Firmware? 2b1af7f3a8