What You Need:
- Any INTEL-BASED Mac (PC/PowerPC will not work with this version)
- 512MB RAM (Since thats what's needed to run Leopard)
- For installation, You will need a DVD-DL or an External HD (Partition at least 7GB of space to restore)
- For booting, you will need a GUID Partitioned Hard Drive ONLY.
- At least 10GB of free space (20-40GB recommended)
- Patience, better safe then never
- Split & Concat (Freeware)
Getting Started:
If you plan on using an external hard drive that is not GUID formatted, read this:
Code:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/partitioning_tiger.html
Will you lose all your data using this process?
Yes.
Is there any way to format it to GUID without losing my data?
iPartition, but there is no cracked version on WBB because the serial has to be requested from the company's website.
What other options do I have that doesnt require me losing any data?
Your going to have to go the route I did and use your main HD. GUID basically makes a HD boot-able for an OS to run. Your main HD is already in that format, you will either need to restore the .dmg or burn the .dmg on a DVD9(Dual Layer).
Here's what you have to do
(READ THIS BEFORE RESTORING AND INSTALLING SO YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO!):
- Boot the Snow Leopard installer.
- Once you've got it up and running, go up to the menubar and load "Disk Utility".
- Go to your main HD, and go to the "Partition" tab.
- Once you've reached that, click on the partition table, and below it, the "+" * "-" buttons should be un-greyed. Click the "+".
- Depending on the size of your HD, make it as small as at least 10-15GB (Some might no go any lower, my 250GB would only go 23GB minimum).
- Click Apply, and read the pop-up. It should state that the partition you've made will be added, and your main will only be resized.
- Once it's done, exit out, and you should be back to the installer.
- When it gets to the option of which HD to install it on, your new partition should show up.
To make the installer bootable, you have to follow the same method as Leopard. Once again, I partitioned my external HD and restored it. Worked fine.
1. Open the Leopard installation DVD using Disk Utility.
2. Using the Disk Utility, create a new dual layer (8.5GB) sparse image called leopard (actual filename will be leopard.sparseimage) and mount it.
3. Restore the Leopard installation DVD to the mounted leopard.sparseimage (not the image file.)
4. Open the mounted leopard.sparseimage with Finder, and delete the XCodeTools directory.
5. Unmount the mounted leopard.sparseimage.
6. Using the Disk Utility, create a new single layer (4.4GB) spare image called boot (actual filename will be boot.sparseimage) and mount it.
7. Restore the leopard.sparseimage image file to the mounted boot.sparseimage (not the image file.)
8. Unmount the mounted boot.sparseimage.
9. Burn the boot.sparseimage to your single layer DVD media.
Booting from this DVD works, but takes a long time.
Heres the way that works for me:
1. Download the dmg (I'm going to call it leopard.dmg)
2. Plug in your external harddrive (I'm going to call it newdrive)
3. Open up Disk Utility
4. Click on newdrive
5. You'll see "First Aid, Erase, Partition, RAID, Restore
6. Click on restore
7. You'll see two fields Source: and Destination:
8. For Source: select leopard.dmg from wherever it is on your harddrive
9. For Destination: drag newdrive from the Disk Utility drive list
10. Click on restore (It might take a while if you're using USB... maybe a few hours, just let it go)
11. Leave this new harddrive with leopard attached to your computer
12. Open System Preferences
13. Click on Startup Disk
14. Select newdrive with the Leopard Install
15. Restart the computer
16. Leopard install begins
17. Install it where ever you want.
I'll give you a walkthrough....
Since my iPod is next to me and my External HDD is being borrowed, we will refer to the iPod as the External HD. The leopard DMG on my desktop is a test, of course it is not 10MB
3. Open up Disk Utility
4. Click on newdrive(iPod)
5. You'll see "First Aid, Erase, Partition, RAID, Restore
6. Click on restore
8. For Source: select leopard.dmg from wherever it is on your harddrive
9. For Destination: drag newdrive from the Disk Utility drive list
Warning: the destination disk has to be formatted MAC and it WILL WIPE ALL THE INFO
12. Open System Preferences
13. Click on Startup Disk
14. Select newdrive with the Leopard Install
15. Restart the computer
16. Leopard install begins
17. Install it where ever you want.
Thats should be self-explanatory.