Cant restore sparse image. need some help

[poose22]

Originally Posted by dnanian

To put a Mac in FireWire mode, you hold down T during power on. It'll then act like a big disk.

Plug it in, with FireWire, to the "host" Mac you're going to be doing the restore from.

To partition:

* Start Disk Utility
* Select the external drive hardware in the sidebar
* Click the Partition tab
* Click Options
* Choose the proper partition scheme (GUID for Intel macs, Apple Partition Map for Power PC) and accept the page
* Use the UI to create a single large partition. Use "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" as the format type and name appropriately
* Click Partition.

Once that's done, open the sparse image. It'll just open as a "disk". Then, start SD. Select the "disk" from the sparse image in the first pop-up, the new partition (on the Mac) in the 2nd, choose "Backup - all files" as the script and either "erase, then copy" or "smart update" as the "during copy" option (in Options).

Then, copy away.

awesome! we got it working now. thanks a lot for your help