Greasy Breakfast Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Locking the DMG did not help, this SL Leopard disc just goes by unnoticed during startup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cubric Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 did you burnt it through Disk Utility? and it doesnt have to be a .DMG file. you could burn it as .sparseimage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greasy Breakfast Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 did you burnt it through Disk Utility? and it doesnt have to be a .DMG file. you could burn it as .sparseimage. I did, both as a .dmg and a .sparseimage the powerbook refuses to recognize it as a startup disc, the macbook refuses to boot past the gray apple logo. My ripped original is good because it successfully produced a patched hackintosh install. I guess I should just get some dual-layer DVD's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onixs Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Greasy Breakfast: where did you get the image of the sl-dvd? is it compress with a ZIP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greasy Breakfast Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 It's a Toast rip from a retail DVD. I used carbon copy to strip out Xcode and printer and language packages. I'm beginning to think my rip must be bad. Attempting to burn a DL disc in Toast gives and 'ILLEGAL REQUEST' error. Irritating! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onixs Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Greasy Breakfast: There is an option to check for the BOOT in CArbon Copy. Be sure to Check that one. it's important, or else your image won't boot when you burn it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greasy Breakfast Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Cant find that BOOT option anywhere in Carbon Copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onixs Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Greasy Breakfast: In Carbon Copy, Click on the Preferences button. This will open the Preference window. You will see the "Make Bootable" box. Check it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greasy Breakfast Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 So version 2.3 has this preferences option, but you cant dig into the folders to remove specific packages.... I'm really confused how anyone has actually used this successfully yet. Unless I go back to my original theory that my initial DVD rip is bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onixs Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Greasy Breakfast: Just make a new image of the sl-dvd. maybe your initial dvd is bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbiem Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 ok so, i have done all the steps, ive copied osx 10.5 to dump.sparse, and then i deleted all necessary files, and then i made burn.sparse, but when i try to "restore" dump to burn, my dump file still says its 7.1 gbs, and i know its not, but i get a error saying it cannot restore to burn becuase selected drive is full. so just for kicks and gigles, i made burn.sparse, a 8 gb dl img. and then hit restore and it worked.. but obvously if i can do that id just burn to a dl dvd lol. which isnt the case. i need to burn to a sl dvd, any help please? -Robbie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cubric Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 you deleted the xTools in the option folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbiem Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 you deleted the xTools in the option folder? yes i did, i deleted all the language packs, and i deleted all the printer packs, then i went into the volume/dump/system or w/e and went into options and deleted xcode pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onixs Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Robbiem: Empty Trash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbiem Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Robbiem: Empty Trash um i did, and i restarted my comp, the size never went down.. but its ok idc nemore, i found a diff way to install it, and im running leopard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikkou Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 Guys, I actually registered only to ask this.. long time lurker, this forum helped me out so much times. The thing is this. Downloaded Leopard Retail version, opened in Disc Utility, followed guide, burned. I insert disc with C to boot from disc, and enter the wait, as I was told, for around an hour. 3 hours passed and I just gave up in despair. The loading screen just stayed with that dreaded animation. I clicked the shut down button, opened the iMac again, and tried burning in a different way - like in page 3, with Carbon. All went smooth until I again booted from the disc. 2 hours went and still loading, I just went to sleep. After 8 hours it's still the same, I just said "screw it" and aborted it again. Not a nice thing to wake up to.. Now I'm trying to download a different DMG that was proven to work, and this will do my 3rd DVD I'm wasting here. Can't say I'm happy at all with the situation. Anyone knows what the hell's going on? Normally I won't bug you and go to MSJ.. but lately it's experiencing all kinds of failing to load, this time it just stays a white screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlesD Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 I burned the install dvd sl-dvd . When i boot up my mac it ejects the disc wether i hold down c or not, using a microsoft keyboard usb. works fine in tiger if i insert the disc it continues to read and then pauses forever on the apple screen with the spinny wheel and after awhile you here the dvd drive stop reading the disc and it stays on that screen forever and a day. any ideas or am i not waiting long enough using mac mini 2.0ghz 1gb 120gb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imrabti Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 Since I don't have a DL-DVD burner on my MacBook Pro i created a SL-DVD using your Method, this DVD boot fine but it stuck on Loading I leave it about 1 Hour and nothing Happen, Please tel Me how can I solve this problem, I absolutly need to Install a new System my tiger is not working well and my restore DVD are damaged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loa Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 Hello, I've burned 4 slightly different versions of OS X 10.5 on a SL disc using different methods posted on the web. Last one I tried was this one found here at the top of this thread. Same problem: grey loading screen never ends... I have to manually shut the computer down. Any new solutions to that problem? Thanks, Loa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loonymonkey Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 Will this method work on a RETAIL image or only on beta builds? With all the trouble people are having with the install, would it be worth buying a couple of Dual Layer DVDs to avoid the aggravation?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scj312 Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 Worked on the final build for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loonymonkey Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 So is it really worth the aggravation to put it on (1) DVD-R versus buying a dual layer DVD-R? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvwhg Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 In squeezing my Leopard 10.5 dmg for burning via Disk Utility onto my SL-DVD, I first deleted all languages but Asian languages support, all printers and X-code tools, and burned the burn.sparseimage. I made it a 'read only' file and even tried clicking the gold lock to lock it prior to burning it. When I use it to boot up and hold the "C" button down, after 15 minutes the Leopard 10.5 OS X installer shows. It allows me to select my hard disk to install, even allows me "options" for archiving, saving network settings, etc...I choose "upgrade"...But after it verifies my created install DVD, a yellow exclamation point appears and says it can't locate the needed files to actually install Leopard. Yes, I already have Tiger 10.4 with its latest updates on my black Macbook Intel Core Duo 2ghz laptop. What have I done wrong??? I even even tried clicking on my main full Leopard 105 dmg file to start an upgrade to Leopard, but, to no avail. Please advise... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugo Guerreiro Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 hi to all.... Ok after five messed up DVD's i finally made it! I removed the Xcode tools; and only these languages : Japanese, Italian, french, Dutch, german, korean and brazilian portuguese. i Only removed these items and burned the damn thing and it installed fine on my Macbook after 5 DVD´s where there was always the same error message about missing files. i believe that if you only remove these files you will be ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cubric Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 btw, what did you install your leopard on? is it a MB or MBP? i had a problem installing the Leopard on my friend's black MacBook. I had no problem installing it on my MBP. it was a problem on hers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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