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Any help would be great.

Well, i have about 3 years of experience with computers, and programming, but my main problem is installing MacOsX with out having to burn the ISO image to disc, but instead mounting it either in Ubuntu, or windows. my question is, is…

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@Xiion Published 2009-03-25
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2,653 historical reads · 3 curated field notes (from 6 dispatches) · 2009-03-25 – 2009-03-27
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Well, i have about 3 years of experience with computers, and programming, but my main problem is installing MacOsX with out having to burn the ISO image to disc, but instead mounting it either in Ubuntu, or windows. my question is, is there a program or emulator (such as windows virtual drive emulator) that wold load up and run/ install mac with out having to burn the image to dvd? i ask this because i simply cannot afford a dvd burner, hell, i can't even afford to buy ciggarettes anymore! but any help would be amazing! yes, i have read the rules here, and have googled this question numerous times, with no avail. thanks for your time,
Xiion.

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Author Update #1 @Xiion 2009-03-26

Thanks for the help, guys. I do, however, have 2 hardrives, both are SATA, and require some sort of ide cable, but its not quite an IDE, its a blue strip, that acts as one, and has a mini MOLEX cable for the power, i've never seen a HD that requires these cable types, so ill remove my main one (which is orginally external) and ill re-format the internal one, make the external hd external again, copy the file to the internal HDD, and boot to it using my boot menu at the load up bios screen. i will post back here upon further progress, or more help. thanks again for the tips and feedback, it's very appreciated!

Author Update #2 @Xiion 2009-03-27

the unetbootin program hangs when i boot it from usb. even with a linux iso, which i have ubuntu installed on another partition. ill keep working at it...

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3 technical responses curated from 6 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @Taisto 2009-03-25

Umm, honestly i dont think so. You could try installing it as a virtual machine, but installing it from Ubuntu to the hard drive as a normal system - i personally think it wont be possible... Maybe any friend could burn it for you ?

Still, i dont think it`s possible but i can be wrong.

Field Note #2 @Ali C. 2009-03-25

I second that, due to the way it runs, it's probably not going to work as a mounted ISO within an OS.
HOWEVER, if you can make a partition on the hard drive and write the ISO contents to that instead, that may work if you can get your PC to boot off that partition. Then you can install the actual OS to a second partition (preferably another hard drive).

Field Note #3 @erick2red 2009-03-26

there's some project called UnetBootin (unetbootin.sourc eforge.net/), that maybe you can try...so we know if it works with MacOSX

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UsernameDossier ContributionDispatchesActive Window
@XiionPrimary Author32009-03-25 → 2009-03-27
@TaistoContributor12009-03-25
@Ali C.Contributor12009-03-25
@erick2redContributor12009-03-26