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I've got a HP Mini 1000 that I'm attempting to turn into a Hackintosh.

At the moment I don't have an external drive handy, so I'm trying to be clever.

Basically, is there some way to take a bootable CD image of Mac OS X and use it to boot over the network? I can get PXE to boot into WindowsPE just fine.

Come to think of it, if there's just some way to take a bootable disk and use it for network booting that would work just as well.

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These questions are cool. It should be known that SuperUser does not condone any type of illegal behavior and in things dealing directly with piracy (such as "where do I get the torrent for this?") we will draw the line. But this falls under more a hardware/software question, regardless of whether or not what he wants to do may violate an Apple EULA. – TheTXI Aug 22 '09 at 4:25
Is violating an EULA against the law? I've always wondered about that. – alex Aug 22 '09 at 6:25
I guess that would depend on where you are. In the UK and Europe the EULA has less force than in US I think. – Col Aug 22 '09 at 13:27
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I would actually recommend removing the references to Hackintosh complely, along with the comments. Can you network boot Leopard should give more then enough details to solve this problem! – Diago Aug 22 '09 at 15:25
Should this be edited to remove all Hackintosh references? I would suggest leaving the question as it is right now, maybe only removing the little note in the question. – alex Sep 18 '09 at 9:27
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This might work, although it's not very easy. However, it would be much easier to just use a normal USB stick that's large enough to hold the image; you can find out more about this here.

As a side note, the steps used to manage installing from a USB stick or from the network drive in no way break the Mac OS X EULA or any other laws.

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Again. Well answered :) You seem to slip past that EULA thing quite well. – Diago Sep 18 '09 at 9:30
Well, what can I say? I have a thing for EULAs, especially the Mac OS one. Why do you think I was so interested in this? :) – alex Sep 18 '09 at 9:31
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