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

[Shannon Lee]

Try re-formatting the thumb drive and re-applying the image.  If that fails,
try a different thumb drive.

--S

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:09 PM, meredith scheff <satiredun at gmail.com>wrote:

> I am intel based.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Philip Gavlan <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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