On May 16, 2008, at 6:19 AM, Stranathan, Dan wrote:
Matthew Isleb <email@hidden> wrote:
With Leopard, however, none of that should be necessary. One image
should work on any piece of hardware that Leopard supports. And even
some that it doesn't officially support. I got Leopard installed on a
400 MHz G4 tower by creating an image of my Mac Book Pro.
Matthew
How did you get your Mac Book Pro partitioned with APM for Leopard
in order to get it moved over to your PPC Mac? I assumed you must
have partitioned it with APM right?
asr doesn't care what partition table you use. It only looks at the
individual partitions and filesystems.
As I understand it, Intel Macs (EFI) will boot from both APM and
GUID partition maps and PPC (Open Firmware) can only boot from APM.
I have tried to install the Leopard DVD onto Intel Macs and force
the installer to allow me to put Leopard on an APM disk, but it
refuses (Apple is sending a signal I think - they wanna make APM go
bye-bye).
Yes, this is why I couldn't just install directly to the PPC machine
in target firewire mode. I had to install to the MBP internal
harddrive (partitioned as GUID) and then asr to the PPC machine.
WHich, overall, saved time because asr is much faster than the install
DVD. I wanted Leopard on the MBP anyway.
BTW: Will Leopard's NetBoot server boot PPC and Intel Macs from the
same NetBoot image?
I don't see why not, but I haven't tested it. Currently we still use
Tiger to netboot.
