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- chad78, on 11/13/2007, -1/+651. you are on digg
2. your username is a Harry Potter joke
3. you digg stories that haven't (yet?) made it to the front page
4. you make a tech TLA joke
5. your joke is in reference to Dungeons and Dragons
- You sir, are an ubergeek, and I salute you.
(Note: This is not an insult, I had to be geeky to recognize half of these.) - Dumbledorito, on 11/06/2007, -10/+41You can install something from a Dungeon Master's Guide?
- MtheoryX, on 11/06/2007, -4/+28I've been doing this for 4 months now. Here is a simple breakdown:
1.) Download the image (legally preferred, but I'm not going to judge you).
2.) Use Disk Utility to restore a drive, iPod, or partition from that image.
3.) Plug in said drive, iPod, or drive with partition. Boot into it.
4.) Install.
Do we really need an article on this? It's not that complicated. I've done it for Client and Server for several months, and I was under the impression that everyone that wanted to do this had already done it.
Dugg for at least being a tech story; however, I don't feel good about it. - LeDopore, on 11/06/2007, -15/+36One word to y'all:
DON'T!
One of the reasons Apple doesn't use crappy product validation is that their customers tend to be honest about software purchases. (The other reason of course is that hardware makes up a large part of the revenue stream.)
Anyways, pirating Leopard is a crappy way to show your Apple enthusiasm. If you can afford a computer, you can afford to support a good produce. Just buy the *****. - supermanred, on 11/07/2007, -4/+25Yeah, I support good produce too. Tomatoes are my favorite, but Apple is okay. They are a good fruit company after all.
- MtheoryX, on 10/30/2007, -0/+19If you have an Intel Mac, booting from USB is perfectly acceptable. I boot from USB all the time.
- DontEatTheFish, on 11/06/2007, -5/+22"BTW, this should work on ANY OS install DMG. There’s no special voodoo magic just because it’s Leopard."
what?!?! no voodoo magic?? what the hell am I buying the operating system for? - intekra, on 11/02/2007, -2/+14Or... If you just want to burn a Single Layer DVD:
What you need
1. Original Leopard developers seed (.dmg)(6.55Gb)
2. One blank DVD
3. Mac OS X 10.4.X Tiger
4. 6.55Gb+6.55Gb+4.7Gb=17.8Gb of harddisc space
Method
1. Mount the Original Leopard DMG
2. Open Disc Utility (under Applications -> Utilities)
3. Click on New Image
4. Name the image as dump
5. Put the type as sparse image
6. Put the size as DL-DVD (8Gb), and click create
7. Mount dump.sparse
8. In disc utility, select the dump image and click the restore tab
9. Drag the mounted Mac OS X Install DVD to the Restore from field
10. Drag the mounted dump to the Restore to field
11. Click Restore and wait..
12. Once that is done, open up the dump mounted image
13. Remove the Developers Tools under Optional Installs
14. Use finder's Go to Folder option and navigate to /Volumes/dump/System
15. Go to Installation -> Packages
16. Proceed to remove anything that has Printer in it
17. Proceed to remove languages that you do not need (like french, german)
18. Verify in Disc Utility on the size of your dump (should be 4.3Gb or less)
19. Return to Disc Utility
20. Click on New Image
21. Name the image as burn
22. Put the type as sparse image
23. Put the size as SL-DVD(4.7Gb), and click create
24. Select the burn image and click the restore tab
25. Drag the mounted dump to the Restore from field
26. Drag the mounted burn to the Restore to field
27. Click Restore and wait..
28. Once its done, burn it to DVD (in Tiger, not leopard) - postaldave, on 11/06/2007, -1/+13i would be more interested in how you got to the front page without your wordpress crashing.
- stalefries, on 11/02/2007, -0/+9Time travel is not voodoo magic, silly.
- wonderchemist, on 10/30/2007, -5/+14The only legally downloaded copies of Leopard (beta or shipping) are for paying developers via Apple Developer Connection. Now if you are a developer and cannot figure out how to install Leopard from a disk image, maybe you should consider switching careers.
- FearNLoathing, on 11/08/2007, -0/+9This is my favorite step:
18. Verify in Disc Utility on the size of your dump - jsbarone, on 11/06/2007, -1/+8For those (like me) *without* a spare external hard drive, here's an easier alternative.
1) Back up all data you want to save.
2) Insert OSX 10.4 DVD, restart, hold ALT
3) Click next, agree, etc a few times until you see an "Options" Button.
4) Make at least two partitions, one for Tiger and one for the Leopard installer.
5) Install Tiger to Partition
6) Mount and extract the the leopard.dmg to the 2nd partition using the disk utility method.
7) restart, hold alt, select the Leopard Install partition.
8) Proceed normally from there. I erased the tiger partition and installed over it.
9) Once in Leopard, open up the Disk Utility and remove the Leopard Install partition.
10) Reallocate free space to main partition. - bimtott, on 11/06/2007, -2/+9For a second, I thought it was telling me how to install Leopard from within a demilitarized zone.
- inactive, on 10/31/2007, -1/+7PC World: MacBook Pro is the Fastest Windows Vista Laptop of 2007
http://digg.com/apple/PC_World_Macbook_Pro_is_the_ ... - inactive, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6I think a lot of people don't realize that all you need to create a bootable partition on an external (or internal) drive is to just copy the files from an existing system partition. This includes the OS on the installer DVD, as well as the OS installed on your system.
You don't needs any special tools. You can just do it from the command-line:
"sudo ditto -XV / /Volumes/Backup" or,
"sudo ditto -XV /Volumes/Leopard /Volumes/Backup"
External drives are so cheap, every sane person should keeps a bootable backup. All HDs fail at some point.
There are perfectly legitimate reasons for doing this:
1. A bootable USB drive is immensely valuable should your internal drive crash or otherwise become unbootable
2. Time Machine backups are not bootable. Booting the Leopard installer from a separate partition on your USB drive may be a lifesaver.
It's one of the nice features of OS X. - supermanred, on 11/06/2007, -1/+6You can also just plug one mac to another using firewire cable or I think ethernet, and then boot the target Mac by holding APPLE-T (command-T) as it boots up, it will go into TARGET DISK MODE and become one huge Firewire drive as far as the other mac is concerned.
You can then put the leopard disc (or dmg image file) on the other Mac and install to the TARGET DISK which is the first Mac in TARGET DISK mode.
Hope that helps, oh when your Mac is in Target Disk mode the screen goes blue and a yellow or white Firewire icon fills the screen. - geraldb28, on 11/01/2007, -0/+5Why, yes, yes I do. Call me if you want. Or better yet. A Leopar iChat at geraldb28@mac.com. Am available right now.
- ismith, on 10/30/2007, -1/+5What does this have to do with installing Leopard from a DMG? And why the quote marks? It's a Mac, and that's not even geek slang anymore, it's the true official name of the things. Keep reading from your IBM "ThinkPad".
- MrDo, on 10/31/2007, -0/+4wah wah
- semiotix, on 11/07/2007, -2/+6Oh, come on. If you're going to steal, steal and do it quietly. Don't try to pass yourself off as a swell guy because you might use the money you saved to buy the thing they make that's harder to steal.
Hey, I cleaned out the cash drawer at the 7-11. Now I can pay for my Slurpee. What a great guy I am, paying for my Slurpee like that. - chad78, on 10/30/2007, -1/+4This isn't Fark - this is digg, and I welcome you to it, as you seem to be new here. I did not promote piracy. The article is about installing legitimate DMGs from the ADC. (If you don't know what those letters mean, trying googling them.)
Secondly, if you were wanting to cuss, just ***** cuss - don't tip toe around it. It's ***** hypocrites bitching about the RIAA. Not whatever the hell you wrote. Adding an "a" to a word doesn't make you somehow less vulgar than someone who doesn't. --- That's being a hypocrite.
Third, it's spelled hypocrites. Firefox has a spell check built in and automatically draws red lines under misspelled words. So do a lot of other browsers. If yours does not, there is a spell check button next to the submit comment button on digg.
Fourth, it would only make sense that music pirates would say ***** the RIAA, movie pirates would say ***** the MPAA, and software/et al pirates would say ***** Comcast. That doesn't make one a hypocrite, that makes them consistent. It's kind of like a black person saying ***** the KKK. The KKK was created out of hatred for black people. The RIAA/MPAA were created out of a hatred of pirates. Why does a pirate hating them back make them a hypocrite?
Fifth, one does not need to be a pirate to hate what Comcast/MPAA/RIAA is doing. BitTorrent has many legitimate uses by anyone's standards. Using BitTorrent to download Ubuntu is legit. Using it to download a song, movie, or television show bought through BitTorrent is legal (BitTorrent.com sells stuff for companies). Comcast limiting those downloads is wrong.
The work of the MPAA/RIAA negatively affects the people who buy movies/CDs legally. Do you think that a person who pirates a movie has to sit through those stupid "PIRACY IS A CRIME" ads that are on the new DVDs? No. But the people who but them or rent them legally do. People who go to the movies do. Pirates do not. A non-pirate has plenty to be pissed about.
A CD buyer who has an iPod, a Laptop, a CD player in their car, one at the house, and one at the office has a reason to hate the RIAA. DRM garbage keeps them from being able to put their music where they want it. If I buy a CD and want to listen to it at work, I should be able to, (assuming where I work allows such things). If I want to put it on my iPod, there shouldn't be a problem. I bought the CD. I can archive it as I see fit - or, at least, I should be able to. I'm not talking about sending copies to my friends, or posting it on my MySpace or something like that. I'm saying copies for me, personally, to listen to. (BTW, I don't own an iPod or have a MySpace account.)
Now, do you think pirated mp3s have DRM? .....
So, hating the RIAA, the MPAA, Comcast, and whoever else limits the access of legal, legitimate content to those who are willing, able, and practicing purchasers of such content - does not make you a hypocrite, or a pirate. it makes you sane. - geraldb28, on 10/30/2007, -0/+3I make it real clear in the article I'm not condoning theft. At first Apple didn't give us ADC members ANY instructions on how to get the DMG onto our machines WITHOUT a Dual Layer DVD burner. So, took things into my own hands...
- davidlow, on 10/30/2007, -1/+4Dude, chill out. There are lots of legal ways to use this technique.
- chad78, on 10/30/2007, -3/+6anyone can pay their fee and become a member of the ADC. There isn't some sort of Mac-Mensa test to join, just the "Does your credit card bounce" test. Plus, you could be installing any number of legal operating systems, or you can buy a copy and not have a DVD drive, just use somebody else's computer to make the DMG - or download the DMG after having paid for the DVD.
Plus, not every "Developer" is a software developer or a operating system developer. There are web developers, who, (since I am one - I can say thing), don't have to know much about the mechanics of any operating system to work. - funtownarcade, on 11/06/2007, -8/+10just buy it, bums.
- FearNLoathing, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2Actually, that would be nice, but you cant boot a PowerPC Mac from a USB iPod (or any other USB device, for that matter). The only way you can do this with an iPod is if you have a USB iPod & Intel Mac or PowerPC Mac & FireWire iPod.
- parkermauney, on 11/07/2007, -2/+4DIGG IS NOT YOUR PERSONAL ARMY.
- Disjunto, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2most of it is dev tools, and language packs. the stuff i normally expect to have to download afterwards
- ismith, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2shipping is sloooooow
- jayratch, on 08/10/2008, -0/+2Legal reason to do this. I lent my mother my Leopard Family Pack disk so she could restore her mac if she managed to crash it. I have an intel mac with a DMG on a hard drive of the disk. Mom decided that worthless looking DVDs (you know, with a boring shiny "X" on it) were useless clutter and disposed of it. Now its time to reinstall her Leopard and I'd like to take advantage of my legally made (and in this case, very wise) backup.
Besides, my license covers 5 machines and I only have 2. I'll gladly lend you a piece of it if you can't afford to buy a full individual license... that's how it works right? - emedel13, on 11/07/2007, -0/+2I installed leopard now i cant get passed the login screen. I type in my password and the screen turns blue as if its going to log me in but them it returns to the login screen. I also tried a safe boot and i get the same results. Any ideas? Please help me out.
- cmer, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2Yes.
- OodlesOnoodles, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2So?
- MrDo, on 11/07/2007, -0/+2The last thing we would want was a AGA(Apple Genuine Advantage). That would suck.
(I ditched my last windows machine because it again thought that my XP was a copy, which it was not. had some faulty ram etc that was replaced. Thank you for accusing me again. Asshats. The next day I went downtown and got my first Macbook pro. I removed the HD from my old PC and gave the rest of the machine away to some family and everybody was happy ) - tyywebb, on 11/11/2007, -3/+5I'm in college...
- hackerssidekick, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2But it's not necessary to upload when downloading
- inactive, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2It must suck to be you.
- jonahan52, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Never mind the drivers are ONLY on the DVD .. kinda silly but that'll change with 2.1
- 5plic3r, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Another way:
asr restore --source /Volumes/source --target /Volumes/destination --erase - elvenseven, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1You're referring to this Dungeon Master guide?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c7/Dung ...
Brings back memories of Atari -_- - ChromaVita, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1You should have preordered it before it came out. I got mine at like 2 oclock EST.
- schallis, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1Using an iPod is effectively the same as a CD as far as the installation goes. Only the media used is different, so basically, anything possible with a CD is possible using this method.
- breakaway, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1caching
- chad78, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1not that I'm aware of, but it would have to be a live DVD, OS X is pretty big. It would be nice, though, huh? You can have a live CD of Windows, at least through XP, not sure about Vista. Google Bart's PE.
oh... wait, were you being stupid? And there I went and answered you intelligently. silly me. sorry to waste your time, *****. - rspeed, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Not silly at all, really. Why make people burn a CD if you're giving them a disk anyway?
It's also not certain to return with Boot Camp 2.1 either. More than likely they'll rely on Software Update in Windows to deliver driver updates. - virtualball, on 10/30/2007, -0/+14) Make at least two partitions, one for Tiger and one for the Leopard installer.
That uses bootcamp, which doesn't destroy data.
9) Once in Leopard, open up the Disk Utility and remove the Leopard Install partition.
That's in Leopard.
I see no problems here... - reevester, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1That does not work as it installs an INTEL version of the OS with that method. Unless your target is an INTEL, don,t do it like that.
- ismith, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1I did. I just chose the wrong shipping method. Silly me...
- elvenseven, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1Link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c7/Dung ...
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