You’ll see something similar to the image below just under point “ 1“. Next select the “ Restore” section and click the “ Image…” button next to the “ Source” input field.Ī window will open in which you have to select the previously copied or moved “ InstallESD.dmg“, and then click “ Open“. Open Disk Utility (you can find in the “ Utilities” folder of your “ Applications” folder, or you can use Spotlight to find it).įirst we must find our USB drive on the left side of the Disk Utility window – make very sure that you’re picking the right device, since the drive will be completely erased! In my example I’m using a 64Gb Kanguru eFlash (very fast USB pen drives and great customer service!).įirst select the correct drive and partition. As you can see in the image below I selected a partition of the 64.39 Gb drive. It's saved me a couple of times.CAUTIONThe drive will be completely wiped in this process! Moved the mini out to it's normal place and reconnected to the HD TV and started it up and everything was perfect.īTW, as many people know, if you're having video out difficulties with your mac mini, it's nice to be able to go 'back to my mac' via another iMac to adjust the configuration. Then 'shut down' the iMac (which was still running off the mini hard drive), then powered down the mini. I was able to then boot SL on my iMac off the mini hard drive and configure everything (making sure that back to my Mac/mobile me was up and running and the proper in home network was correct). Then took quite a long time (upwards of 1.5 hours) to install, and the estimated time left during the install would sometimes appear frozen at 40 minutes, but the blue bar kept extending indicating it was making progress. It went through a number of steps, then asked AGAIN which drive I wanted to install SL. Started SL installation icon (iMac) and indicated that I wanted to install on the mini hard drive. Started mini and pressed and held the T key on the mini keyboard until it mounted on my iMac (seen in Finder) as a hard drive. Turned off mini, connected mini to iMac w/firewire cable.

So, following the advice I found elsewhere, I did the following:īooted up my 24' iMac, inserted SL disk into iMac. Snow Leopard (SL) upgrade in my mac mini failed part way through and when I tried to re-do the upgrade, it would give me a blue screen (via DVI to my HD TV).

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