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How do you make a bootable install partition from a disk image of an install disk.

I have an iMac g4 running Leopard and would like to install OS X 10.3 on a different partition Leopard is on. However the super drive in the iMac will not read the disk I have, so I used my MacBook Pro to make a disk image of the install disk to use to install on the iMac. I do not know how to make the disk image into a bootable partition so I can install 10.3. The person I bought it from has already created a partition of the Leopard install disk and it is bootable but I do not know how he did this. Please help me. Thanks!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Oct 15, 2013 6:24 PM

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Oct 17, 2013 12:50 PM in response to Apple Fan 1012

However the super drive in the iMac will not read the disk I have, so I used my MacBook Pro to make a disk image of the install disk to use to install on the iMac


Could be the cd is bad. Could be a bad cd reader.


I' not sure what you are trying to do.

To install,

-- you need to boot from a cd.

-- copy a working installation from another partition. try carbon-copy-cloner

-- could try target disk mode. There is a cd sharing mode.


"Installing OS X 10.4 'Tiger' on DVD-Challenged Macs Using FireWire Target Disk Mode" Should work for 10.3

http://lowendmac.com/misc/06/0710.html


Here is a picture of a firewire port:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/IEEE_1394_Firewire_PCI_ Expansion_Card_Digon3.jpg/800px-IEEE_1394_Firewire_PCI_Expansion_Card_Digon3.jpg


cd sharing across ethernet. Not sure if this works for booting.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5287

How do you make a bootable install partition from a disk image of an install disk.

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