Re: leopard *.dmg file too big
Re: leopard *.dmg file too big
- Subject: Re: leopard *.dmg file too big
- From: Ted Thibodeau Jr <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:08:20 -0400
** At 9:01 PM -0700 9/19/06, Eric Schlegel wrote:
>> 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.
Ah, that's another useful strategy, if you have such a partition...
* Dan Shoop [2006/09/20 03:46 PM -0400] wrote:
> 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.
... but you can't boot from a mounted .dmg ...
Be seeing you,
Ted
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