Dan Cameron - Latest Comments in Creating OS X Leopard Install on a USB Drive or iPod

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

T.MacLeod — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:29:03 -0000

Ok, I am in trouble and more Mac illiterate than I thought. I've never opened a disk utility. I've never made a partition. I am clueless. All I know is I'm running Tiger. I currently have no money for an upgrade and so may things on the web I want won't work for me because my OS is too old. PLEASE help me.

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

Bananqs — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:00:52 -0000

Installation took 24 min. :-)

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

RDM — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:45:09 -0000

so convert it into a dmg file on your hard drive.

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

Robert Simcox — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:19:04 -0000

fail! I keep getting error 254.

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

Jessica — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:23:29 -0000

That will be perfect if you DON'T have a MacBook Air with only one USB drive wich is going to be used with the Superdrive so you can read the DVD....

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

Per (Swe) — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:08:10 -0000

This method seems to be working fine for me. (i hour left on installment as I write) In my case I made the bootable usb-drive on a MBP (intel), to install leopard on a powerbook g4 -so I first had to put the powerbook g4 in target disc mode and make an apple partition (not GUID). You don't need to to that if it is already partitioned (but I screwed up partitions on the G4 since I'm a newly mac converter)
cheers!

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

xZ34 — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:33:37 -0000

Thnx ;)

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

fuzztech — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:31:37 -0000

windows can if its networked.... you can map it similar to windows file sharing... :D

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

duderuud — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:36:00 -0000

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.

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

wpoon — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:21:01 -0000

I'm getting this error message, that says error(2) on it...can someone tell me how to fix this?

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

roll — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:18:44 -0000

is that bootable? if it is not,could you tell me how can i do that?

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

Peter — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:11:24 -0000

Oh. But that's MUCH easier on a PC. :-p

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

dell mini9 guy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:20:43 -0000

I keep getting a read/write error during the "restore" process... Any suggestions?

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

usb drives — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:16:17 -0000

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.

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

alex — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:15:28 -0000

i'm having the same problem.
were you able to fix this?
I hypothesize that it has to to with USB vs. FireWire.

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

neomac — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:40:15 -0000

If I partition it into two and restore the image to the first partition, it fails.

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

Marc — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:59:04 -0000

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?

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

Daniel — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:58:44 -0000

Any chance I can do this from windows since my Mac is out of commission?

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

Richard J — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:58:45 -0000

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 :)

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

Kristoffer Nolgren — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:35:05 -0000

I can't get it to work, it says I have to use the orginial installation method...

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

Dennis — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:30:02 -0000

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

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

cab — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:08:51 -0000

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?

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

Steve — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:07:55 -0000

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.

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

dancameron — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:40:32 -0000

you will need to repartition the entire partition.

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

bozo — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:37:18 -0000

hi,

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

thks