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need help installing leopard on external HD - Mark Webber - 11-17-2009
I am going to try to make a backup of leopard onto my 2TB extrenal hard drive. When i go to install it, the drive comes up with explanation mark and says: "Mac OS X cannot startup from this drive."
My laptop is a powerbook G4 and the external hard drive is formatted using the Apple Partition Map.
Anybody Help?
RE: need help installing leopard on external HD - manipulate - 11-18-2009
You will need either shrink your existing (NTFS?) partition and add a HFS[+] partition or just make the whole thing HFS[+]
RE: need help installing leopard on external HD - Mark Webber - 11-18-2009
How can I do that for free?
RE: need help installing leopard on external HD - dunlop03 - 11-18-2009
Use >>
Code:
http://www.partition-manager.com/If you want it for free mail me
RE: need help installing leopard on external HD - Mark Webber - 11-18-2009
Thanks Dunlop03, I paid for it though.
I've got a new problem though, when I go to install leopard, it says,"Install Failed, the installer could not locate the data needed to install OS X"
help?
I made 2 partitions on the HD 1 160GB (For Leopard) and 1 1.8TB (For Other Stuff)
RE: need help installing leopard on external HD - dunlop03 - 11-18-2009
You need to partition your internal HD not your external
RE: need help installing leopard on external HD - manipulate - 11-18-2009
HOLD UP, You PAYED for the program?!?! - OS X has its own partition manager that is accessible via the CD...please don't tell me you payed for it.
RE: need help installing leopard on external HD - Mark Webber - 11-22-2009
DAMN! oh well
at least im being the honest person 
again, i have a new problem. the installer starts to work until it starts to install the essentials.pkg file, then it stops and says "Install Failed! Mac OS X could not install some files on /Leopard 10.5.
it goes fine up until that specific point (about 54% through install the essentials package)
Why do i need to partition my internal HD if im installing on an external HD?
RE: need help installing leopard on external HD - tommyisfuego1 - 11-23-2009
LOL that seems complicated. Just jumping out of Topic here, but can one of you give me or pm me a link to download Snow Leopard for free? Any one? But I dont want to do the DVD process, can I just download it and run it on the mac itself?
And Also, Ive heard that you dont need a Serial Key, is that right?
RE: need help installing leopard on external HD - manipulate - 11-26-2009
(11-23-2009, 04:35 PM)tommyisfuego1 Wrote: LOL that seems complicated. Just jumping out of Topic here, but can one of you give me or pm me a link to download Snow Leopard for free? Any one? But I dont want to do the DVD process, can I just download it and run it on the mac itself?
And Also, Ive heard that you dont need a Serial Key, is that right?
Usually I'd be all for grabbing something from TPB but honestly it's just $30.