Restore hard drive Help

I have a dmg file of a Macintosh HD snow leopard that I need to restore to another mac with all of my applications on that image. I used disk utility to make my ext drive to restore from, held option and choose theext drive. Instead of loading setup and installing it only runs the os from the drive

cedgar01 wrote:
I have a dmg file of a Macintosh HD snow leopard that I need to restore to another mac with all of my applications on that image. I used disk utility to make my ext drive to restore from, held option and choose theext drive. Instead of loading setup and installing it only runs the os from the drive
that's exactly what it's supposed to do when you hold option and select to boot from a drive. to run snow leopard install you need to boot from a snow leopard install dvd. but I'm confused by what you are doing. the external drive is bootable? and the dmg is stored on that drive? if so, is the other mac the same exact model and specs as the old one. if not you can not do it this way. also, I don't understand what you mean by "I used disk utility to make my ext drive to restore from". please provide full details what o what you did and what you are trying to do.

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