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gl1tchy0ne · Aug 21, 2006, 11:05 PM

Hello all,

I need some help here. I have 10.1 with a disc image of 10.4 on the desktop. I need to install from the disc image cause I dont have a DVD drive in my Machine. I was told this was possible and now I need to know how.

Here is what I have done so we don't repeat that... I clicked on the .dmg file and got it mounted and it shows "Mac OS X Install Disc 1" and the same for 2 , 3 and 4. So I select disc 1 and select "Install Mac OS X" and it comes to a window that says to restart to start the install. So I do that and then it boots back up to 10.1 like nothing ever happened.

Please tell me what I need to do to install from the disc image given the information above. I really need to get this done tonight and have tried to google the hell out of it with no luck.

Thanks,

gl1tchy0ne

chabig · Aug 21, 2006, 11:11 PM

The reason you've had no luck is because it is not possible. The computer has to be booted from the install DVD. Without a DVD drive, your only option is to do the install from another computer with yours in Target Disk Mode.

Chris

Art Vandelay · Aug 21, 2006, 11:16 PM

If you have images for Disc 1, 2, 3, and 4, then you don't have the DVD version. You have the CD version. You can burn those images to CDs and install from there.

dimmer · Aug 21, 2006, 11:17 PM

If you are seeing four disk images it's a set of CD images, not a DVD--can you burn the 4 CD's and work from those?

gl1tchy0ne · Aug 21, 2006, 11:22 PM

U guys are awesome! I must say that I did get some wrong information in a previous post here and that kind of sucks... I guess that I will have to be more careful.

Here is a link to where I was told it could be done!

http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/...tall-anything/

Thanks guys! I really appreciate the help... going to burn cd's now!

gl1tchy0ne · Aug 21, 2006, 11:31 PM

ok hehehe... went off half cocked as usual

How do you actually get to the other .dmg files... cause they just show as volumes I guess. I need to make them into .dmg's so that I can convert them to iso's and burn on my linux box as the mac does not have a burner.

So here is what I am saying. Once I have clicked on the dvd dmg file it makes the disc's 1-4 that look like removable drives (White w/ a slot in the front) and I can click on them and see the contents. But when I control click and select show info it shows them as volumes.

Again what I need is a way to get a dmg image of the volume so that I can convert to iso and burn on my linux box.

Thanks gents!

~gl1tchy0ne

- - e r i k - - · Aug 21, 2006, 11:47 PM

So, are you saying that you have one .dmg file that mounts as four separate volumes?

gl1tchy0ne · Aug 21, 2006, 11:54 PM

Yes thats exactly what I am saying. I mount the original .dmg file (Mac OS X Tiger Install DVD.dmg) in this case and it puts 4 volumes on my desktop labeled " Mac OS X Install Disc 1 " and the same for 2 and 3 and 4. I can then click on these "Volumes" and see the files and all that. But they are not .dmg files so I am not sure how to make them that way so I can convert to iso and burn using linux.

Please assist me!

~gl1tchy0ne

Art Vandelay · Aug 22, 2006, 12:03 AM

It sounds like someone partitioned a disk into 4 partitions than cloned the install discs to those partitions then made a disk image of the whole disk.

You can make new disk images from those 4 volumes in Disk Utility. Choose CD/DVD Master as the format. You can rename the resulting image files to *.iso since in my experience the images are in iso format.

gl1tchy0ne · Aug 22, 2006, 12:27 AM

Nope... u cannot. I tried to do this but you cannot create on using a volume... it has to be a dmg or what not.

So far the only thing I found that you can do with the disk copy program is to make a new blank image and then copy the stuff from the volume to the image. This says that some files could not be copied so I don't think that will work either.

Please help explain how to do this if I am doing it wrong!

~gl1tchy0ne

Art Vandelay · Aug 22, 2006, 12:41 AM

Forgot, you have Disk Copy still on that version. I don't remember the details on how to do it in that program but you can make a disk image from a volume. Think about it, that's what a disk image is. It wouldn't make sense to only be able to make one from an existing disk image. Check the help in it for the exact steps to image a volume.

analogika · Aug 22, 2006, 02:48 AM

Sheesh, there *STILL* isn't a decent CD-version of 10.4 available for illegal download via BitTorrent?

It's been almost 18 months!

Saltire · Aug 22, 2006, 10:28 AM

If you've got a legal copy of Tiger on a DVD Apple will exchange it for a CD version for $9.99 through the Media Exchange program:

http://images.apple.com/macosx/pdf/T...angeFormv5.pdf

No need to resort to a pirated CD version.

Laurence · Aug 24, 2006, 06:44 PM

BTW, you certainly can install from a disk image. You can't install to the boot drive, but you can install on a different partition/drive. To do this, don't run the installer, just find the package files themselves on the image and run them. It will install the OS to another drive just fine.

I did this to get Tiger onto a clamshell G3 laptop with no optical drive whatsoever... I just booted the laptop into target disk mode and then ran the installer packages from my G4 with a DVD drive. after I finished the install I rebooted the laptop, held down option and selected its internal drive as the boot drive. it booted up and I saw the normal intro to Mac movie and everything has worked great ever since.