site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 20, 2006, at 6:58 PM, Dave Schroeder wrote: On Sep 20, 2006, at 5:55 PM, Shaun Wexler wrote: - -chris zubrzycki - - -- PGP public key: http://homepage.mac.com/beren/publickey.txt ID: 0xA2ABC070 Fingerprint: 26B0 BA6B A409 FA83 42B3 1688 FBF9 8232 A2AB C070 ======================================================== "Twice blessed is help unlooked for." --Tolkien -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Please sign reply-http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAkUSEEgACgkQ+/mCMqKrwHBRnwCg0vDC+dN/j/4jIjh2uih/RBL+ MP0AoIZlTJdm138w11cY9xnW8Cl81VAH =WvAF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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. No burning is necessary, but the best way to do this in the absence of burning or a DL DVD writer is to restore the .dmg to any partition or drive large enough to hold it, boot from that, and perform the installation on the desired volume, as was originally suggested. iPods work wonderfully for this, they usually have a few gigs you can free up, no wasted DVDs, and are very fast. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com