Installing from external dvd rom

Hi,
Is it possible to install solaris 10 from external dvd rom. If yes then how?
Thanks,
Javed

I just did this on a Sun E420, attaching a SCSI DVD-ROM to the external SCSI connector, so that it's on a different SCSI bus.
Did a probe-scsi-all to see the device.
Did a devalias cdrom to see what that path looks like
Did a devalias dvdrom <path to DVD like the cdrom>
boot dvdrom (worked)
to make the device alias permanent (devalias setting is lost after reset or power down) use nvalias command (like the devalias) and make sure the use-nvramrc? OBP env variable is true. (see online OBP docs).
If you have a x86/x64 system, this won't help.

Similar Messages

[solved] Boot installer from hard disk, but install from external DVD.

Hi!
I have an old notebook with broken cd-rom and without support to boot from USB disks (only "USB-FDD"). I want to install on this notebook Arch Linux! I bought an external DVD writer and I would like to only boot Arch linux, but install from external drive. How can I do it?
Last edited by gienekr (2011-12-07 14:58:49)

Mavirick wrote:Have you tried burning the ISO to a disk, putting it in the external drive and powering on the laptop? If yes and that did not work have you gone into the bios to see what your boot options are for the laptop with the external device plugged in?
Yes. My laptop does not support booting from usb-cd and usb-hdd
But I installed Arch by grub4dos to boot from iso, connect external dvd and start installation. System successfully detected the dvd drive so I could install a new system!

HP Envy 15 Won't boot from external dvd rom

Hi All,
My HP Envy is brand new (Envy 15 j151sa). The external DVD drive is brand new (HP dvd600). My model of the Envy does not have an internal CD/DVD drive
I want to boot from a live DVD.
I've read other posts and answers for similar queries and followed the suggestion.
On boot press F10 (BIOS setup) and the Boot Options settings are as follows...
a) Secure boot - disabled
b) Legacy boot - enabled.
c) Changed the legacy boot order to have the USB dvd rom as first in the list.
Save the setting.
Restart the PC.
On boot press F9
Displays the availabe list of devices (3) to boot from as
OS Boot Manager
Boot from EFI file
Notebook harddrive
There is no option to select the external DVD rom drive.
I have upgraded the BIOS to the latest HP recommended version.
I don't know what else to try.
I could really use some help now.
Thanks
This question was solved.
View Solution.

Your external DVD drive is operatying as it should.
The best place to find an answer on how to make the live CD is at the Debian forum. The disk you made apparentlydoes not have an MBR bootsector or a recognized EFI partition. Either of those is what is needed for the disk to be bootable and your notebook BIOS must be configured accordance with the choice of format type.
Personally I have always preferred using a utility like UNetbootln to make multiple "live" bootable Linux versions.
I don't bother with the hassle of DVD or CD media any more.
If you have a spare 32 or 64GB usb flashdrive, then you can put an incredible number of versions of Linux and troubleshooting utilities on it.
The economy of scale with usb flashdrive has gotten to the point where a 16 GB usb flashdrive is less expensive that DVD recordable media. Check out the prices at NewEgg.
Get your preferred version of Debian AMD64 live iso from here.
****Please click on Accept As Solution if a suggestion solves your problem. It helps others facing the same problem to find a solution easily****
2015 Microsoft MVP - Windows Experience Consumer

Installing from External DVD Drive

Can you install Leopard from an external DVD drive (USB)? I bought an external DVD drive and it has a faster speed then the built in DVD Drive in my iMac.
Thanks,
agent6998

I wanted to try this out and used my 10GB 3G ipod to install, and it actually went pretty fast. It took me ~45 minutes to install from boot to boot (not counting post-boot blue screen that took ~10 minutes or so, and then final setup tunings/customizations, etc.). The time saved equaled the time it took to copy the DVD to disk image, root around and find my old ipod, and restore the image to the ipod, so its not that much more efficient. Additionally, its an unsupported method of installing, so if something goes wrong dont blame Apple.

Install from external DVD drive

can i install Tiger from my external DVD firewire drive? how would i do this, it is my Imac G3 600 and it does not have a DVD drive built in.
Xelapond

Yes, as long as the drive is bootable you can install Tiger from it.
Insert the Tiger DVD into the drive then restart the computer. After the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. If the external drive is bootable you should see an icon for it. Select the icon then click on the large right arrow button.
If the above doesn't work, then insert the DVD in the drive while already booted into your current system. Open the Startup Disk preference and select the DVD from the icon list, then click on the Restart button.
If the external drive is a bootable drive one of the above methods should work for you.
Why reward points?(Quoted from Discussions Terms of Use.)
The reward system helps to increase community participation. When a community member gives you (or another member) a reward for providing helpful advice or a solution to their question, your accumulated points will increase your status level within the community.
Members may reward you with 5 points if they deem that your reply is helpful and 10 points if you post a solution to their issue. Likewise, when you mark a reply as Helpful or Solved in your own created topic, you will be awarding the respondent with the same point values.

Format iMac from external dvd-rom

My DVD-ROM kicked the bucket today & to top it off, my AppleCare expired end of 2009. Replacing the ROM is out of the question (for now) as I was quoted approximately $500 for a replacement.
I need to re-install Leopard & would like to know, is it possible to connect my other iMac & use it's DVD-ROM drive to re-install Leopard?

blimpmedia wrote:
Is there anywhere online I can buy spare parts for my iMac?
The Apple service centre wants to charge me $400 to replace the DVD-ROM, and $150 for labour.
I don't know if these people ship to your country, but they have reasonably-priced parts:
http://www.ifixit.com/Mac-Parts/iMac-20%22-2.16-GHz
They also have step-by-step instructions for a number of replacement operations:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-iMac-Intel-20-Inch-EMC-2105-and-21 18-Optical-Drive-Replacement/1090/1
WARNING: An iMac can be a little tricky to work on. For example, there are some parts that have to be coated with heat grease during assembly. Another thought: that disk drive is probably not specific to Apple. If you can find a competent computer repair shop, you could refer them to those repair instructions and let them do the replacement.

Tiger Upgrade from External DVD Rom on G5 Powermac?

get a copy on cd as well?

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
The Superdrive or Combo drives which ship with a variety of G5s that I've seen is itself a DVD capable drive. This means no external drive is necessary unless that drive breaks.
Use Apple menu -> About This Mac -> More info to verify the type of optical drive you have installed in your Mac in the System Profiler. Click on the Disc Burning section of the Hardware section to discover if it reads DVD.
If you were attempting to install Tiger on a machine that shipped with Tiger, use the installer disk that came with the machine.
If you are attempting to install Tiger on a machine that shipped before Tiger, use the retail disks, and not another Mac model's restore disks to install Tiger.

Booting from external DVD-ROM

I have recently purchased Leopard for my server the only problem is, is that G5's do not have DVD drives a have a USB DVD drive is it possiable to boot from it?
Thanks

Hi
Are you sure? As far as I know every G5 came with at least a Combo Drive (DVD/CD-RW)? You can answer your own question by inserting the installer disk into the external drive, restart the G5, hold down the alt key and see if Disk Manager shows the disk as a valid bootable source. In fact you don't even have to do this. Insert the installer disk, go to Start up Disk in System Preferences and see if you can select it as a bootable source. Restart the G5, it will either work or not. Personally I think you may need a firewire connection rather than a USB one.
Tony

Installing Tiger w/ External DVD ROM

I have an e-mac with a dud super drive, bought an external DVD Rom Drive, pop the disk in, It mounts, double click install, it says restart to start the instalation, i do, then it boots up like nothings different, no installation, I tried to restart holding down "c" and a weird screen comes up with some "apple basic" stuff and i have to restart I also changed to start up disk option and it didnt work. I'm runing 10.2.8, bought a new mac book with tiger and leopard software, I want to upgrade my good ol e-mac but cant! Please help!
Brad

Bradley Beef,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Is the external DVD Firewire or USB? Only Firewire devices can serve as external boot drives for PowerPC (PPC) macs such as the eMac.
Holding the c key down at startup tells the Mac to try to boot from the internal optical drive. You want the option key, as described in Startup Manager: Select a Startup Volume. (You can also look at Magical Macintosh Key Sequences).
From your post, it does come across that you're using the Install discs from the Mac Book. Aside from the pesky legal detail that the Mac Book software is licensed only for use with the Mac Book, gray label OS X Install discs are model-specific and will only work with the model with which the discs were shipped (not to mention the Mac Book is an Intel CPU and the eMac a PPC CPU). You'll need the retail black-label Tiger or Leopard Install DVD to update the eMac.
Updating from 10.2.8 to 10.4.x will make your eMac feel much more responsive (assuming you have at least 512 MB RAM). There's a handy upgrade guide for Tiger in Gulliver - Tiger Upgrade Guide.

Installing Leopard using an external dvd rom

I am unable to install Leopard on my iMac G5 due to a defective superdrive. Can i install it using an external dvd rom? pls HELP!

If it uses FireWire it should work. Boot while pressing Option. When he cursor changes to a arrow, select the DVD, then click the straight right-pointing arrow.

Macbook pro cant boot from external dvd device please help !!!!

hello everyone please help me i have macbook pro 2011 core i5 version
i just installed 2.5 ssd as second hdd
i cant boot from external dvd device to install any os the external dvd keeps on spining and mac is just thinking it doesnt show press any key to install
it shows the device when a boot into mac parition
i am trying to install windows on origianl 500 gb hdd and linux on ssd
but not luck
the external dvd drive works i pluged into my pc and it works
please help thansk in advance
200 gb mac
300 gb windows
120 ssd linux

I do not know about Disk Warrior but if you have a compatible OSX on an external HDD you certainly can boot the MBP. Use startup manager:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht1310
Ciao.

TS1394 Can't re-install Leopard. Trying to reinstall the OS because computer locks up. It is a 2008 iMac that came with Leopard. Upgraded to Snow Leopard. Tried to archive and install from original DVD that came with iMac. Installation failed, so tri

Computer locks up, so I want to reinstall the OS. I had upgraded to Snow Leopard.
Tried to do an archive and install from the DVD that came with the computer, but that failed.
Tried to do an erase and install, but the install stops somewhere near the end, 13 minutes to go. Tried several times, same result.
Can't reboot from the install disk, it just ejects the disk and I get the flashing question mark.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.

I think my hard drive is toast. When I boot in single user mode, I get the following text:
CSRHID Transition Driver: start booting in single user... will wait for window server
Then the following text appears, repeating itself over and over, except that the numbers (indicated by "xxxxxxx")
SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x03, ASC = 0x02, ASCQ = 0x00
SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x03, ASC = 0x02, ASCQ = 0x00
disk1s3: I/O error.
0[level 3] [READUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [Err No 51] [IDType READ] [PB1kNum xxxxxxxxx] [LB1kNum 0] [FSLogMsgID xxxxxxx] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
0[Level 3] [READUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [FSLogMsgID xxxxxxxxxx] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
These messages keep repeating with the numbers (xxxxxxxxx) changing with each iteration.
Does this indicate a bad hard drive?
Thanks.

Software update for A2109A - how to install from external sd?

I bought my wife and son an A2109A tablet each just a few days ago. I immediately did an ota update. When I checked if there any further updates it said the tablet had the latest software from 297 days ago.
I see everyone on forums talking about a jellybean release for this tablet so I had a look on Lenovo's site and sure enough, there is an update released on 20th Feb 2013 with the filename a2109_jb_gpl_rc1_227.tar.bz2. I downloaded this, put it on an ecternal sd card and booted into recovery mode. The tablet did a search for an update, found it but couldn't verify the update. I chose the "install from external storage" option, but it couldn't see the file. I renamed the file to "update.zip" and tried again but it aborted again both automatically and manual install.
What do I need to do to install this update?

MichaelMc wrote:
I bought my wife and son an A2109A tablet each just a few days ago. I immediately did an ota update. When I checked if there any further updates it said the tablet had the latest software from 297 days ago.
I see everyone on forums talking about a jellybean release for this tablet so I had a look on Lenovo's site and sure enough, there is an update released on 20th Feb 2013 with the filename a2109_jb_gpl_rc1_227.tar.bz2. I downloaded this, put it on an ecternal sd card and booted into recovery mode. The tablet did a search for an update, found it but couldn't verify the update. I chose the "install from external storage" option, but it couldn't see the file. I renamed the file to "update.zip" and tried again but it aborted again both automatically and manual install.
What do I need to do to install this update?
You tried to install the kernel source on your tablet? You can't do that, What OS are you running? if you don't have jb, the system update should allow you to update.

TA44597 I'm trying to put playlist onto cd. My computer has built in cd rom/dvd player that doesn't work, I purchased an external dvd rom which plugs into my computer via usb. iTunes recognises when I have inserted a cd to play but will not burn to it.

I'm trying to put playlist onto cd. My computer has built in cd rom/dvd player that doesn't work, I purchased an external dvd rom which plugs into my computer via usb. iTunes recognises when I have inserted a cd to play but will not burn to it. help!

Portsian wrote:
I'm trying to put playlist onto cd. My computer has built in cd rom/dvd player that doesn't work, I purchased an external dvd rom which plugs into my computer via usb.
Is it also a CD/DVD burner? Or is it kjust a CD/DVD player?

Have a canon dc310 camcorder that uses mini dvd's. How can I get my new Imac to read these dvd's?Camcorder unable to connect to computer. Will a mini dvd adapter work or do I need to purchase an external dvd rom device? Which device works well with a mac?

I have a Canon DC310 camcorder that uses mini dvd's and doesn't have the ability to connect to a computer. How can I get my new Imac to read these dvd's? Will the mini dvd adapter work or do I need to purchase an external dvd rom device? Which device works well with the Mac? Do I need anything else to get the dvd material onto my mac? Thanks!!

No DV port in camcorder. Just a yellow AV port/hole. I did find a Canopus ADVC110 device in a box that was bought several years ago to convert VHS tapes onto DVD's. Can I use this with a Mac? Could I connect a dvd player to the Canopus and transfer the disks onto my Mac? Or, connect the camcorder via AV port to the Canopus and that to the Mac and transfer that way? Thanks again!

Installing from external dvd rom

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for