Getting leopard image on to a hd.

[FearoftheNight]

Someone recommended to me to set up a 10 gig partition on my time machine disc then to copy leopard onto the partition. Does anyone know how I can do that? Furthermore, is there a way to hide the partition after it's done and only make it reveal itself in the os when I need it? Thanks in advance!

 

[TheStu]

http://iuseapple.com/blog/appl...l-firewire-hard-drive/

 

[FearoftheNight]

You will see the Install DVD appear on the left in Disk Utility. Single Click the listing from Mac OS X Install DVD. Then select New Image from the Tool Bar. Change the Image Format to ?entire device?. Find a place to save the disk image, name it Mac OS X Install DVD. Click Save. Wait until the process is complete (This can take a while, so go outside and play).

I don't see entire device as an option. Instead I see read only/compressed/read.write/cd.dvd master..any ideas? Thanks again.

 

[TheStu]

Are you running Tiger or Leopard? The instructions call for you to be running Tiger when doing this. I no longer have a Tiger system, so I cannot check myself. I probably should have one... but I don't.

 

[FearoftheNight]

I'm already running 10.5.1 leopard. So is this guide valid at all for what i'm trying to do?

 

[TheStu]

Choose DVD/CD Master, and then you should be able to follow the rest of the steps as listed.

 

[FearoftheNight]

will do thanks

 

[FearoftheNight]

hey are you sure that was it? because the next step is to restore and it created a cdr file instead of a dmg file

 

[TheStu]

OK, you are right, there is a way to do it with the CDR, but it is tricky.

I want you to open up terminal and then type this command, then restart Disk Utility and begin the process fresh

defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility advanced-image-files 1

This will allow you to choose "entire device". It also gives you about 10 other options, but "entire device" is in there.

 

[FearoftheNight]

well actually what i'm trying to do is convert the cdr into a dmg file...do you think this will work?

 

[FearoftheNight]

this is going to be a super dumb quesiton...how do i access terminal?

 

[TheStu]

Terminal is located in the Utilities folder inside your applications folder. Same folder as Disk Utility.

 

[FearoftheNight]

lol what the heck that was teh first place i checked...i must have been rly tired but yea i just typed it into console and i still don't see the extra options...

 

[TheStu]

Did you quit Disk Utility and then restart it? That part is important.

 

[FearoftheNight]

yes i did...still no luck