Thanks to rathalos at insanelymac.com forumsOk, Here's a short and quick foolproof guide to making a SL-DVD leopard installdisc...How to cut the Leopard down from 6GB to fit a 4.4GB disk.What you need1. Leopard .dmg 6.56Gb2. One blank DVD (+1 backup blank just in case you screw up)3. Mac OS X 10.4.X Tiger (This is important, cos Leopard screws up disc burning)4. 6.55Gb+6.55Gb+4.7Gb=17.8Gb of harddisc spaceMethod1. Mount the Original Leopard DMG (jus double click u idiot!!)2. Open Disc Utility (under Applications -> Utilities)3. Click on New Image (at the top u fool!!)4. Name the image as dump (save on desktop!!)5. Put the type as sparse image6. Put the size as DL-DVD (8Gb), and click create7. Mount dump.sparse8. In disc utility, select the dump image and click the restore tab9. Drag the mounted Mac OS X Install DVD to the Restore from field10. Drag the mounted dump to the Restore to field (or equivalent)11. Click Restore and wait.. (have some patience... ZEN...)12. Once that is done, open up the dump mounted image13. Remove the Developers Tools under Optional Installs14. Use finder's Go to Folder option and navigate to /Volumes/dump/System15. Go to Installation -> Packages16. Proceed to remove anything that has Printer in it (u can always get fromvendors)17. Proceed to remove languages that you do not need (like french, german)18. Verify in Disc Utility on the size of your dump (should be 4.3Gb or less)19. Return to Disc Utility20. Click on New Image21. Name the image as burn (save on desktop!!)22. Put the type as sparse image23. Put the size as SL-DVD(4.7Gb), and click create24. Select the burn image and click the restore tab25. Drag the mounted dump to the Restore from field26. Drag the mounted burn to the Restore to field (dont mix up!!!)27. Click Restore and wait.. (have some patience... ZEN...)28. Once its done, burn the burn.sparceimage to DVD (in Tiger Disk Utility)29. Use Monolingual to remove your existing Tiger install any languages from thatyou've also just deleted from the Leopard disk.30. Install Leopard.Customise to not install the items removed above, the languages, Xcode, printerdrivers.
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