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

[Philip Gavlan]

yeah, sorry, wasn't paying attention. all the g4 talk lately has put me 
in that mode. usually it's due to chaining USB devices, as Ryan pointed 
out. Also, i've noticed sometimes i've only gotten the restore to work 
with "Erase Destination" checked, and other times unchecked. So i'd try 
both.

Phil

On 12/20/2010 2:09 PM, meredith scheff wrote:
> I am intel based.
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Philip Gavlan <pgavlan at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pgavlan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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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