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Installing OS from external HD?

NullZer0 · 2007-10-24 17:41:54

The DVD drive on my iMac is broke and I want to reinstall Tiger ;) Is there anyway that I can create an image, but it on an external HD and boot/install from there? :D

24-10-2007 5:41pm

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The DVD drive on my iMac is broke and I want to reinstall Tiger Is there anyway that I can create an image, but it on an external HD and boot/install from there?

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#2 24-10-2007 5:43pm

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Or perhaps even a network install?

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#3 24-10-2007 5:48pm

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I'm led to believe that if you could get your hands on an external Firewire DVD drive, it'd boot from that. But I've never tried this so I can't verify I'm afraid

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#4 24-10-2007 6:22pm

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Use Disk Utilty to restore the image file on to a separate partition, be it on your internal hd or an external firewire hd. I've done this in the past and it works.

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#5 24-10-2007 6:26pm

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Gotcha

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#6 24-10-2007 8:53pm

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http://gwhiz.wordpress.com/2006/09/21/installing-leopard-from-dmg/ is for Leopard, should work with Tiger

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