When I check my startup disks from preferences I can see the usb drive so I select it and click restart.When it restarts I just get a grey screen and nothing happens.It asks admin password then restart and again the same grey screen.
I had to convert the installation disk from.iso to.dmg using convert from disk util and then renamed the destination file to.dmg convert. Did the command V thing and the last thing it said was parent something loaded after one try then sat there, then printed something very fast and shut down. The bootable copy of Leopard shows up but restarts as soon as I select it and Im suck with the same issue. Did you do it that way It also appears that you need a flash drive that is at least 8 GB in size. If you can get that far and it gets stuck, can you share some of what it says, especially anything near the end or anything that looks suspicious like it may have gotten stuck there). Create A Boot Loader Disk Snow Leopard Mac OS X ServerBuy Mac OS X Server from the App Store if you are using Lion (and download Apples server admin tools so you can run Server Admin), or try out JAMF softwares NetBoot Appliance (that will run as a virtual machine, under OS X, Windows, or Linux), and (hand waving here; you might be able to use System Imaging Utility in the server tools) set up a NetBoot image of your installer DVD to install the software. One strange thing: At first I couldnt see it on available boot drives and while at it, I pulled out USB,but it back in and it was available. In couple of days I am going to do the reinstall so I will know if it really worked. Not the answer youre looking for Browse other questions tagged leopard bootable-disk install. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple Inc.
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