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Re: Install OS X from DMG File

Guest — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:23:54 -0000

how did you format your USB HD ?
In Disk utility go to partition then by options change to guid-partition.

(sorry for my bad english)

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

Roland Anderson — Sat, 28 May 2011 23:11:08 -0000

Yeah - Follow his instructions exactly.

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

Nick Paton — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:39:50 -0000

Can some one please tell me how to install leopard on a os x 10.3.9 iMac G5 system from a 8gb 2.0 USB?

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

Castaneda — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:40:28 -0000

error in the .dmg file, and the system is restarting all over again endedless

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

South097 — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:16:10 -0000

so my disc drive is shot anyway i can use toast as an alternative?

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

karthi15 — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:12:34 -0000

im using windows 7.i'm eager to try snow leopard.can i install it with 7 as a dual boot...........

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

Geozuniga123 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:30:52 -0000

hey u need a program called atoski it works and also installs mac osx 10.5

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

InDaWild — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:31:40 -0000

The program that does it is named "diskimages-helper", not "dd". I guessed it was "dd" myself, but after I examined the process a bit, I saw that it's not :)

It's good to know that restoring to a USB Flash Drive will take more time, so be patient!

Thanks for the tip - I, like many others, couldn't see the obvious...

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

terrywang — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:23:41 -0000

Something different when restoring the Snow Leopard DMG to a flash disk.

You need to mount the dmg 1st, then use disk utility to restore the actual Mac OS X Install DVD (inside the DMG) to the flash disk, instead of specifying the DMG as source.

Then the 8G USB flash disk is loaded with Snow Leopard bootable, I think it's just UNIX command dd? Keep pressing option key until you see the option to choose the boot device;-)

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

sallyfingers — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:49:21 -0000

You may need to use HTS (Mac OS) file system format for this to work. I tried using FAT and had errors. Then obviously realized that FAT cannot support files over 2GB. I reformatted to HTS and rock on....

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

shafique — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:19:01 -0000

plz send me how i can dow dmg to osx fils

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

James — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:08:36 -0000

I think you can later use the erase in disk utlity to reformat it again

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

Ryan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:06:35 -0000

Hey, I have a question.

If I restore the dmg to an external device, will I still be able to use that device? I mean, will it be able to do it's intended purpose once this is all said and done?

I'm only asking because I was going to use my digital 8-track recorder as the device, but I want to still be able to record my music with it after. Restoring a dmg to it isn't going to make it inoperable afterwards, will it?

Thanks for any help

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

qdideas — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:36:10 -0000

Sounds like your DMG of leopard is corrupted.

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

Nick — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:57:54 -0000

I’m having a bit of a problem, maybe you will be able to help.

I have two hdds installed and a dmg of leopard.

I go into the disk utility, and try to use the restore feature with no luck.

I get either an error one, or an error 16, both telling me the copy failed.

Today, I purchased a 500gb firewire drive to try to get it to work. No luck, same error.

When I try to do the same think on my macbook, (I am trying to install leopard on my powermac running osx 10.3 )
When I do it on my macbook, it begins to copy files, and works for several minutes, and then I get an error stating: could not restore, operation not supported.

What am I doing wrong? Any insight?

I have a dl burner available to me.

I have my original osx leopard install disks that came with my macbook.

Any suggestions?

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

ali — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:59:59 -0000

you said that i must Copy my dmg file to my current apple desktop , but what i must do if my disk was formated

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

Alessandro — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:23:59 -0000

Thank you very much... ehm It's true: nobody think to the simplest things! :-)

Re: Install OS X from DMG File

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:41:53 -0000

Hi there,

I have a problem trying to setup the dmg.

I did what did article said. However, Once I open Startup Disk, I cannot see my USB HD with the Mac OS X Leopard...I only can see a folder with Mac OS X 10.4 and Network Startup.

Did I do something wrong?

I have a PPC G5 Dual 2GHz and 2 HD + this USB HD I want to use for the Leopard installation.

Your help could be very useful!! thanks!!

Vic