site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Sep 20, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Eric Schlegel wrote: On Sep 20, 2006, at 12:46 PM, Dan Shoop wrote: _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... 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 This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com