Installing on mac mini without cd

Greetings, everyone!
So i've been trying to install Arch on intel mac mini. The problem is booting the installation image.
1.I can't manage it through the cd as it seems to be broken (auto ejecting every disk i insert into).
2.I've tried booting from usb with image file and that "dd" copy. Refit see the usb but print a lot of 'can't load' after booting from it, also it states that it probably would't work.
3. My another attempt was to put the same image by the means of "dd" on hdd partition. Well, refit see this partition as possible boot variant, but simply hangs when booting with no messages.
4. Finally, i try to copy all files from archlinux.iso to /efi/archlinux and put there elilo.efi and elilo.conf like this:
image=boot/vmlinuz26
label=linux
initrd=boot/archiso_pata.img
This time i've got "Loading elilo.efi" and it hangs again.
Now, i have no ideas for further attemps. Simply have not enough knowledge. I suspect that slightly modified 3th or 4th solutions may work, but what that modification? Any ideas?
Last edited by podosinovik (2010-02-27 20:45:50)

So you did this:
# diskutil list
found the disk that is the usb device, then:
# diskutil umountDisk /dev/diskX
with X being the usb device, then:
# dd if=Arch.img of=/dev/diskX bs=1m

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