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Dan Cameron: Creating OS X Leopard Install on a USB Drive or iPod

  • bozo · 2 years ago
    hi,

    do i need a specially formatted and freshly erased usb drive ? or ca i use any disk without erasing it ?

    thks
  • Dan Cameron · 2 years ago
    you will need to repartition the entire partition.
  • Steve · 2 years ago
    Yep, this rocks--I keep a partition on my portable drive with a clone of the Mac OS X Server install DVD. The installation flies (as well it should since you're not tied to the speed limitations of DVD-ROM), and that's an advantage when you've got a crashed server and VP's standing over your shoulder asking when it's going to be back up.

    And Windows cannot read any Mac filesystems natively, although I think there are 3rd-party apps you can install to do it.
  • fuzztech · 3 weeks ago
    windows can if its networked.... you can map it similar to windows file sharing... :D
  • cab · 2 years ago
    I tried this method and I installed it on my macbook and it worked perfectly. Then i tried on my macbook pro and everytime somewhere during installation it freezes, the bar stops moving and I cant click on any of the menu bars. Anyone ever experienced something like this?
  • Dennis · 2 years ago
    Good idea for keeping the files somewhere safe... im about to install but im not sure if it will see my usb drive :(.... well ill soon find out
  • Kristoffer Nolgren · 1 year ago
    I can't get it to work, it says I have to use the orginial installation method...
  • Richard J · 1 year ago
    An easy way to do screen captures (without having the background)

    Command + Shift + 4, then press the space bar, click on the window you want. You should have Picture #.png on your desktop. I love OS X :)
  • Peter · 6 months ago
    Oh. But that's MUCH easier on a PC. :-p
  • Daniel · 1 year ago
    Any chance I can do this from windows since my Mac is out of commission?
  • Marc · 1 year ago
    I followed this to the T, but when I boot from the Leopard partition, the only available disks to install on are other partitions on the same drive. How can I install from the usb drive to my MacBook's internal drive?
  • alex · 1 year ago
    i'm having the same problem.
    were you able to fix this?
    I hypothesize that it has to to with USB vs. FireWire.
  • neomac · 1 year ago
    If I partition it into two and restore the image to the first partition, it fails.
  • usb drives · 11 months ago
    Your USB drive is now bootable.
    Insert your newly formatted drive into any USB-bootable mainboard, reboot, and select the USB drive as the first boot device. You will be brought to a Windows 98 MS-DOS prompt. From here you can update your BIOS, make system disk fixes, etc.
  • dell mini9 guy · 10 months ago
    I keep getting a read/write error during the "restore" process... Any suggestions?
  • roll · 5 months ago
    is that bootable? if it is not,could you tell me how can i do that?
  • wpoon · 2 months ago
    I'm getting this error message, that says error(2) on it...can someone tell me how to fix this?
  • duderuud · 1 month ago
    Make sure your usb drive is bootable before you start the above explenation:

    - Go to disk utility tool
    - Select your usb drive
    - Click partition
    - Select 1 partition
    - Select the proper boot option with the Option button (Intel Mac need the GUID partition)
    - Select Apply, the stick will be automatically formatted after partitioning

    Now the stick is bootable, proceed with the above explenation.