What you need:
DMG of Leopard
Extra partition or external drive to install to.

• Mount the image:
• On mounted install DVD image:
• System>Installation>Packages>OSInstall.mpkg
• Run this app
• Install to new partition or external drive
• you know the rest.

Oh yeah, you still have to set it as the Startup Disk or choose during startup to boot into Leopard. But you knew that!

*****UPDATE*****
When the BSD Subsystem Installer stalls, go to Terminal, type: sudo killall temacs



peace in the middle crease.

Works on Dual 1.8 G5 running 10.4.7
I would suspect it works on Intel Macs.

So we just need the easy way to create a partition on the boot volume

You could always use the guide that I posted at http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=24532

That will get you a local partition for Time Machine as well as Leopard installed as your Primary OS without needing to use a single DVD. 

As well, you can also use my guide with your original installation media and an external hard drive to back up your data, partition your drive with your old install disk, restore the Leopard image to your Time Machine partition, and then install from your Time Machine partition. 

Try this

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-89960.html

regards,

Oh yeah
Well I have three discs so I'm no help. lol. good luck

i dunno why but its saying it cant open it.

when i install tiger or leopard all i get is the apple screen and nothing loads from there.

I've tried this way but EVERY TIME I've tried it just lets me register and then takes me to the blue screen with the cursor and just hangs.

If you get stuck on the blue screen, you have to startup in Safe Mode once (hold down shift when computer is starting) then it will work to start normally.

I tried at least 3 times, but I get allways stucked in the Post-Treatment phase of the BSD installation...

Is it Ok, does it take this long (it says 2 minutes left before the end of process, but the bar doesn't progress...) or do I have a real problem ?

I try to install on a second hard disk, without any system on it...

I also tried in safe mode, I still get blocked in the final phase of the installation.

Any comment?

yeah same here... in console shows Java variable...... something about language...

Indeed, I try to install french language...

So the localization would be buggy ??? during an installation ???

I have a separate partition on an External Drive dedicated to running Leopard but when I try this installation method, it says that I cant boot Mac OSX on that volume...or any other volume for that matter. Help!

If you have it hooked up USB and you have a Power PC Mac (g3-g5) then it is correct, hook it up firewire if possible, if you have a intel mac the reverse is the same and hook it up USB.

Wow. Thanks alot, I diddnt think of that. I actually just got my external HD yeterday. Im new here just came over from MacRumors. They go all Gung-Ho when you talk about Leopard saying its illegal and whatnot. Anyhoo I like it here, thanks for the help.

Yeah mines getting stuck on the BSD Subsystem install with 6 minutes remaining,

Same here, still no solution so far. Kind of a disappointment unless this is not as universal as everyone seems to think.

Uhh.. Thanks, that was perfect!
I used parted to shrink my hfs+ partition. It worked fine.
But how can i format this partition (and only this partion) to hfs so that I can use it? Disk Utility just shows me a unformated free space at the end of the harddisk..

Thanks for any help!

select partition then erase in disk utility.

Thanks for your support, fullOut!

I tried to erase that partition by using disk utility after booting my 10.4 installation DVD.
But when I want to erase the free partition it shows me, that all data on the disk (including Volume 1 Macintosh HD) will be lost.

Does this only work on intel macs with boot camp or something?

Sorry for being that stupid. But well, this was easier with partition magic on windoze..

Humm.. u have two partition right?!.. one with Tiger and one with FREE SPACE!!.. select the free space partition and choose erase in ERASE TAB.. DO NOT click on partition in PARTITION TAB.

I'm not sure why it wouldn't work. I just know it worked for me using the dmg and installing from OSInstall.mpkg to an external drive. No guarantees here. I did not mean to get anyones hopes up.

Exact. I think this should look like this, right?




When I try to erase the HD on this screen I get the message that the data on the whole HD (including data on Volume 1 Macintosh HD) will be lost.


Maybe I just try it tomorrow. I have recent updates of my home dir, so there would be no big loss. Would take a while to recover all apps and my music, which is not located in my user directory.

But I would prefer a solution without screwing up my HD.

I have a little problem. I have the disk image on my server and I am connected to that usine file sharing and have the Leopard disk image mounted on my desktop. I want to install onto a firewire disk. This is what I get when I try:



Please help me!!!

Jeff

Format the disk you want to install Leopard to :w00t:

I have formatted it

Yeap, but your second partition it is not an afs or hfs+ partition, frei partition need to be on left painel, under macintosh hd partition.



Because your 2nd partition its not recognized, to tiger u have only one partition. With linux fdisk u can change type "AF", apples partition type.

Greetings,

No the problem is that most of your external or internal drivers are set to the Mac partition types.
In DiskUtility hit options and set it to GTK so you can boot on an intel mac and then partition.

Regards,

mx

YAY! Mine now works. I have Leopard. One thing that is not working tho is my external speakers. It seems my headphone jack has died in leopard...

Jeff

Worked for me!!  Running OS X 10.5 on a 20" Intel iMac.  


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I seem to have the same problem with the speakers and isight is altso dead. 20" Intel Imac

I have another problem. LThe big cat will only start in "safe mode" if i don't hold shift while starting up it lock's up at that blue loading screen.
Can anybody help me fix this.
Thanks

It might help if you posted WHAT type of machine you are trying to load it on.

It's kinda like saying "My car wont' work" but not specifying how it won't work.

You need to format it in Mac OS Extended (jornualed).

Sorry, i forgot to say that i ran Leopard on an Intel 20" Imac

I have the same issue as Jaffa had.
Formatted my external hard drive Mac OS Extended (journaled) but it won't let me install it because it says that I can't boot from it.
Jaffa or anyone else, do you know what the problem can be?

Hey there.

If you're having problems with the no-DVD install where none of your disks can be installed to (it says OS/X can't boot off this device, or something like that), it means that your external drive is on USB. That won't work. Only external firewire drives can be installed to.

Good Luck,
Knick

When ill try to install osx 10.5 on my ipod. but when i get here: http://bildr.no/view/9202

And it go, and go, and go.


What happening?

Go to Terminal
Type: sudo killall temacs

it works

but when i try to install this happening:

When i had boot from the ipod.

I had the same problem simonthor, but using screenshots of installation of tiger and tabbing in the menus I installed without a lot of problems. Its not a great solution but it worked for me. It happened on my USB Drive Leopard installation (maybe this helps)

But i have a problem, Leopard cannot detect the airport hardware nor the sound hardware on my macbook

I tried this and was able to get through the installation process no problem, but when I restart into the Leopard partition I get stuck at the Apple logo with the rotating circle. Never actually boots into Lepard. Ive tried a few times, letting it sit there for a while as well as holding Shift while booting. I cant get past the start up screen. This is getting annoying, nothing I try works.

I installed this way, and can boot into safe mode (I am in safe mode now) but can't boot up unless I am in safe mode.

macbook pro 15"

200mb efi
60GB Tiger
14GB Leopard

please please help

I can't get it to boot on mine, either, without safe mode. I thought maybe Apple dropped support for my G4 with Leopard, but I guess not.

I was seriously looking for another Mac to replace my G4 until I saw your post. Then I just decided to get a PC Laptop and wait for a better Mac to come out later (linux is a fine replacement for OS X if you really need it to be).

I'm guessing there's some flaw with the Leopard install DVD.

My install froze when installing the BSD subsystem. When am I supposed to type in sudo killall temacs to terminal. I can't access terminal when it freezes. I tried before I installed but the problem still exists

Has anyone managed to solve this issue? I have the same problem here...

My second partition is formatted Mac OS X Extended (journaled)


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where can i get the dmg of leopard ? just pm me ,thx very much..

I'm not sure about second partition but for an external drive read here:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=169016

This method will no longer work for 9a321 unless you use the new installer. The reason? Apple has compressed the packages using "xar" and created "flat" packages. The DVD seems to be the easiest way now (besides iPod installation that is).