Si_ Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I have an imac with a broken superdrive. I notice I can remotely install osx from another mac, but it appears to only be for the Air? Would it be possible to remotely install onto an imac? I tried booting holding C but I don't get the option to boot with Airport, only the hard drive. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdmcmahon Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I have an imac with a broken superdrive. I notice I can remotely install osx from another mac, but it appears to only be for the Air? Would it be possible to remotely install onto an imac?thanks So, granted, I am a cheap ass, but I would just buy an external DVD drive, load your OS and then return the drive and say it didn't work with your iMac G3 which only has USB 1.1 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisj1968 Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Remotely install OSX on an imac?, Possible? answer: remotely & possible in the same sentence? -no. Steve Jobs shows up on your imac screen and threatens to find you and kill you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 It is my understanding that the remote install is if you have a OS X server on your network serving it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted June 25, 2009 Veteran Share Posted June 25, 2009 There is a "Remote Install" feature built into Leopard as well. You can even do a remote install from Windows by running it from the OSX install disc apparently. It's looks like it's only supported on the Air and 2009 Mini though. Instructions are here for anyone that's interested. @OP: "C" is for CD-ROM boot. Option is supposed to give you the available startup disks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I tried doing that running the instal from my iMac to my Macbook when testing the WWDC snow leopard, and it didnt work, i am not sure but i think the OS X install dvd's that come with the air include function to to catch the remote install coming from another computer, i doubt very much install dvd's for other mac's even have the code installed to make it work and even if you used a full retail DVD im sure the installer will not include it on anything other than an AIR and i believe the bootup option you were looking for is holding "N" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AltecXP Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Then why would that remote installer for a PC be on my 13.3 MacBook if it only work on the Air? that's stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Then why would that remote installer for a PC be on my 13.3 MacBook if it only work on the Air? that's stupid. The remote installer only acts as the server over the network, to use that PC as the "Disc Drive" for the Air. i dont know maybe i did not do it correctly but i search apple support pages and could not find away to use it with anything other than an AIR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted June 25, 2009 Veteran Share Posted June 25, 2009 Rip your 10.5 disc to a dmg and then restore it to an external or flash drive with disk utility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I am going to try that sometime, I have a spare thumb drive laying around, wouldn't it be faster though from an external hard drive plugged in though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 I am going to try that sometime, I have a spare thumb drive laying around, wouldn't it be faster though from an external hard drive plugged in though? Yes it would but not by not much, i restored the WWDC snow leopard .dmg to a 32gb PNy thumb drive and it took 12 minutes to install it on my iMac (from clicking the final install button, to the installer saying the install was complete and it was going to reboot) i also restored it to my WD 320gb passport and it was only 2 minutes faster. i did not time the actual DVD install but im pretty sure it was the slowest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 (edited) It should work with every Mac, not just the MacBook Air. Both via AirPort or Ethernet. Wild guess is that it might not work between an Intel and PPC Mac. Edit I just found out that the Remote Install Mac OS X application won't recognize any PPC Install DVDs such as Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and 10.4 Tiger. The only logical conclusion I can come up with is that the Open Firmware of a PPC Mac simply doesn't support this feature. Edited June 26, 2009 by .Neo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 (edited) It should work with every Mac, not just the MacBook Air. Both via AirPort or Ethernet. Wild guess is that it might not work between an Intel and PPC Mac.*snipped* Edit I just found out that the Remote Install Mac OS X application won't recognize any PPC Install DVDs such as Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and 10.4 Tiger. The only logical conclusion I can come up with is that the Open Firmware of a PPC Mac simply doesn't support this feature. Try it i did everything i could think of to get the remote system to recognize the installer from my iMac to my macbook but it would not give me the network dropdown menu that the instructions say it should during boot time. Both my iMac and Macbook are Intell and i even tried putting the OS X disc that came with the Macbook in my iMac and still nothing. if you can get it to work on Any Mac could you please make a step by step tut? below is the screen i can not get to showup on the remote Macbook Edited June 27, 2009 by Phantom Helix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Are you sure your iMac has the latest EFI Firmware installed? I know Apple released quite a few updates for different Macs in the recent years. Maybe I'm completely wrong here and the feature only works with the MacBook Air and latest Mac mini. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Yes it does, this is an early 2009 iMac built in febuary, it came pre-installed with 10.5.6, it is now 10.5.7 and a week or two ago they just released an EFI update, it was mainly to address ATI GPU issues tho, mine has Nvidia. i cant reverse it either and go from putting the disk in my MacBook and trying to install on the iMac it does not work and i cant find out why, nothing in apple support/forums and i got to page 136 on google before i gave up lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 I came across this for you: http://jasonevangelho.com/2008/11/02/how-t...on-air-macbook/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted June 29, 2009 Veteran Share Posted June 29, 2009 I came across this for you:http://jasonevangelho.com/2008/11/02/how-t...on-air-macbook/ (Y) It has a link to the Windows remote install app on Apple's site. I think that's what comes with the Air that the OP needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 well i tried that and it did not work for me, it did enable the disc to show up in finder when the macbook was booted, but not during boot time like the remote install requires, if the system your trying to install OS onto doesn't currently have a functioning OS like if you bought a brand new HDD then this just wont work on anything but the AIR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted June 30, 2009 Supervisor Share Posted June 30, 2009 Couple things to try: Install from another Mac via TDM: http://macamour.com/blog/2007/11/07/instal...rget-disk-mode/ Install from another Mac via TDM/Disk Util: Make a fresh installation on some other machine or partition and image it. Then image the destination Mac over Firewire with Disk Utility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Well in that case there's nothing left than use Target Disc Mode or use a USB-device with around 8GB of space to restore the Mac OS X Install DVD to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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