Optionally, if you have a free partition on any attached drive
that's big enough, you can just write the .dmg to the hard drive
partition rather than burning a DVD. This is common practice for
many Apple engineers. Then you can boot from that partition
rather than booting from the DVD. It's typically much faster than
burning a DVD, too.
Well then you can just leave the dmg as a dmg and just mount it
with hdid (etc) as well too. That is you don't have to expand the
dmg's onto disk.
I don't think you can boot from it in that case, though. And you
need to boot from it to run the installer.
No burning should be necessary. Any particular Mac OS X version can
be installed onto another partition by mounting the .dmg, logging
into the root account and double-clicking on the image's /System/
Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg. You're only required to boot
from a CD/DVD when installing onto your [solitary] boot volume.
--
Shaun Wexler
MacFOH http://www.macfoh.com
"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."
- Oscar Wilde
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