It's here when you need it. Do you want to try to load Tiger first? I have the 4 CD version that might load. On Jun 30, 2009, at 6:36 PM, Gordon B Nickerson wrote: > Wayne, thanks - i can use that. It's for a hackintosh project and > people have reported differing results depending on the drive. It > may be the external usb unit but it says compatible with mac os 8.6 > - 9.2 and osx. I certainly don't want to take apart the mini or G5 > to pull the drive! The target is the dell mini 9 which has basically > the same hardware as the first macbooks. Rather than wait for apple > i'm building a mac netbook. > I've tried other drives that should work but osx crashes when i boot > it from the optical disc so was going to try an apple rom drive. > I've already partitioned the SSD as a mac file system. > > Right now i'm cloning the 10.5 retail dvd to a usb - when done i try > booting from that. > > cheers > gord Wayne Dobson pwdobson@xxxxxxxxxx (519) 474-1253 res. (519) 860-2725 cell --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage your account options at <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi>