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Apple Pro Underwear · Aug 13, 2004, 02:45 PM

I bought Panther last year and backed it up as a .dmg.

The disk is at work and I need to do a re-install. I just received Disk Warrior from the mail and it fixed my hardrive problems.

When I run the installer via my desktop � it just restarts. I figure it wants to start up via a CD...

Any way to get around this?

(Tibook 500, 768 Ram, No Superdrive)

thanks

gorickey · Aug 13, 2004, 02:50 PM

So I take it you cannot burn the .dmg file you have of Panther?

MindFad · Aug 13, 2004, 02:53 PM

Yep.

Open the disk, go to:

System > Installation > Packages > OSInstall.mpkg

That's it, that's Panther. Install packages (printer drivers, what have you) from other discs/DMGs (Panther discs 2 or 3) as needed.

Hopefully this will dispel the myth that you can't install right off the CD/DMG without rebooting. Good luck, N'Yawk,

Apple Pro Underwear · 08:05 PM

Apple Pro Underwear · Aug 13, 2004, 08:09 PM

Originally posted by MindFad:

Open the disk, go to:
System > Installation > Packages > OSInstall.mpkg

Am i supposed to do anything special?

I mounted the .dmg and navigated to the file and clicked on it. it opens up and then disappears....

I also tried dropping it onto the "Installer" in utilities...

BUT NO DICE

MacGorilla · Aug 13, 2004, 08:23 PM

I can't see a way

MindFad · Aug 13, 2004, 10:58 PM

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
Am i supposed to do anything special?

I mounted the .dmg and navigated to the file and clicked on it. it opens up and then disappears....

I also tried dropping it onto the "Installer" in utilities...

BUT NO DICE

Should open just fine. Are you trying to install on to a separate disk or your startup disk? If you're trying to install it on the disk you're already booted from, then that won't work. Need to boot from disc then.

Hmm, you launch OSInstall and it just closes? Are you launching it using the Installer off the DMG, or from your HD?

I dunno. That sounds odd.

Apple Pro Underwear · Aug 14, 2004, 02:11 PM

Originally posted by MindFad:
Should open just fine. Are you trying to install on to a separate disk or your startup disk? If you're trying to install it on the disk you're already booted from, then that won't work. Need to boot from disc then.

i tried it on a partition as well as my external HD (firewire).

now something else happens �

"The installer package "OSInstall" cannot be opened. There was an unknown error with the package (999)"

i also tried copying the file so that it's seperated from that folder.

Hmm, you launch OSInstall and it just closes? Are you launching it using the Installer off the DMG, or from your HD?
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I am just clicking on it and letting it open. i also dragged it onto the apps>utilities>installer

is there a special way of "launching" that file that I am neglecting to do?

thanks

Taipan · Aug 14, 2004, 02:25 PM

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
I mounted the .dmg and navigated to the file and clicked on it. it opens up and then disappears....

Hi!

Which version of OS X are you running at the moment? I think the problem is that the package needs to be opened with the version of the installer that's on the Panther CD. If you are currently running an older or newer OS version than the one on the CD, the Installer might be incompatible. I don't think that it's possible at all to install Panther without booting from the CD.

Apple Pro Underwear · Aug 14, 2004, 03:22 PM

after i diskwarriored my HD � i reinstalled Jag and dowloaded all the updates (10.2.8)

should i try burnig just the OSinstall.mpkg onto a CD? and installing from that?

Angus_D · Aug 14, 2004, 05:49 PM

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
should i try burnig just the OSinstall.mpkg onto a CD? and installing from that?

Uh, if you can burn the mpkg why exactly can't you just burn the entire CD image?

Apple Pro Underwear · Aug 14, 2004, 05:59 PM

i dont have a dvd burner (dmg alone is 2 Gigs)

the osinstall is only a few MBs (which doesn't sound right so i suppose it is grabbing other files from the CD)

Telusman · Aug 14, 2004, 07:22 PM

Panther retail doesn't come on DVD's does it? Sounds like your attempting to install from an Apple Install DVD that came with a newer Macintosh... You have good luck with that...

Apple Pro Underwear · Aug 14, 2004, 09:37 PM

argh!

maybe i'll try and trim some of the extraneous stuff out and burn an install cd that way

MindFad · Aug 14, 2004, 10:58 PM

Are you installing from Panther? If not, perhaps the OSInstall package won't load from an older version of the Installer app. And no, you can't just burn the OSInstall package on a disc and do it that way. It pulls data and other packages off the Panther DMG as it installs.

Looks like your only bet is to just burn the CD. Sorry for getting your hopes up. Unless you are on Panther and it's just not working�in which case, I am stumped.

Angus_D · Aug 15, 2004, 06:27 AM

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
i dont have a dvd burner (dmg alone is 2 Gigs)

Did you mean to say "Tiger" rather than "Panther"?

the osinstall is only a few MBs (which doesn't sound right so i suppose it is grabbing other files from the CD)

The OSInstall is an mpkg. It just points to various other .pkgs (BaseSystem, Essentials, BSD, etc)

And just burning those packages to a CD won't do you any good if you can't open them with your version of Installer, unless you also burn the stuff you can use to boot the CD.