We will soon have our a tutorial to do this that will be modernized for Tiger and Leopard, stay tuned for that! In the meantime, you can follow the instructions on installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard from an external hard drive and they are virtually the same, you can modify those yourself for Tiger if need be, but OS X Snow Leopard is really a good Mac OS X so perhaps that’s the better route if the Mac hardware (or Hackintosh) supports it.

Creating Mac USB drive OS X installers with modern versions of OS X.

Partitioning and restoring the USB drive. Locate the USB drive on the left-hand side of the window and click on its name, not its partition. To do this, you can either search for the application in Spotlight or find it in the Applications folder.

OSx86 ONLY: Boot Mac OS X x86 from a USB Pendrive – this is for OSx86 (Hackintosh) Creating a Snow Leopard USB Boot Drive Using Disk Utility Start by launching Disk Utility on the Mac.

Install Mac OS X Snow Leopard from an external firewire hard drive or USB flash drive.

Supposedly, using the same procedure, you can even boot Mac OS X from an iPod! That’s kind of neat, but we advise the USB flash key instead.įor best performance be sure to use the significantly faster USB 2.0 or better, then choose what you need: Usage CC0 1.0 Universal Topics Apple, install, disk Publisher Apple Language English.

Here are articles on how to have a fully functional portable Mac OS X installation that you can tote around on a USB volume, one of these, aimed at Hackintosh, gained a lot of attention several months ago, and one that has recently topped the Digg charts demonstrating a Snow Leopard USB install build from yours truly.īoth will direct you step by step on how to get Mac OS X booting live from a USB pendrive to install.

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