So you've downloaded a copy of Mac OS X Leopard off the World Wide Webz and now have a bunch of RAR files. First you need to extract these files, use UnRarX. At this point you should have a .DMG file of about 6.66GB. You have several options:


Video Tutorial: How to Install Leopard Without A Dual-Layer DVD (.MOV)

Burn A Dual-Layer DVD

1. Open Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities/). Do NOT use Toast.
2. Click the Burn button and select the .DMG.
3. Insert a dual-layer DVD and wait for the process to finish.
4. Follow the Installation Instructions provided by Apple.


Use an iPod or External Hard Drive

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 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 and the installation will begin.


iPod Walkthrough....


1. Open up Disk Utility
2. Click on newdrive(iPod)


3. You'll see "First Aid, Erase, Partition, RAID, Restore
4. Click Restore


5. For Source: select leopard.dmg from wherever it is on your harddrive
6. For Destination: drag newdrive from the Disk Utility drive list


WARNING: the destination disk has to be formatted and that WILL ERASE ALL THE DATA!

7. Open System Preferences
8. Click on Startup Disk
9. Select newdrive with the Leopard Install
10. Restart the computer and the installation will begin.


Create a Single-Layer DVD Version

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 very very long time.

Another Method

1. Boot up your original Mac OS X Disc 1
2. Go to Disk Utilities
3. Format (erase) your Boot Camp partition
4. Reboot
5. Restore the DMG to the Boot Camp partition
5. Reboot
6. Hold down Option key
7. Choose the Boot Camp partition
8. Install OS X 10.5.

For more information please visit Apple's Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard Support website.

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