[Noisebridge-discuss] booting off of a thumb drive?

[Philip Gavlan]

Only Intel-based Macs support USB booting. You will need a firewire 
drive in order to boot from on a PowerPC box.

Phil

On 12/20/2010 2:03 PM, meredith scheff wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a copy of OSX Snow Lepoard that I'm trying to install off of a 
> thumb drive, as my optical is busted. I am following these directions:
> http://www.maciverse.com/install-os-x-snow-leopard-from-usb-flash-drive.html
> but having issues- it won't install. If I hold alt while booting, it 
> doesn't show up as a bootable drive, if I select the image off the 
> thumbdrive and try to run it, it asks to restart and then goes back to 
> my regular desktop after restarting.
> Can anyone give me some pointers?
> Best
> Mer
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