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Create a portable Mac OS X install on a USB flash drive

February 26th, 2007 - How to, Mac OS X

No, we don’t mean portable as in a laptop, but portable as in a USB flash drive. Here are two interesting articles on how to have a fully functional portable Mac OS X installation, one that gained a lot of attention several months ago, and one that has recently topped the Digg charts. Both will direct you step by step on how to get Mac OS X booting live from a USB pendrive. Supposedly, using the same procedure, you can even boot Mac OS X from an iPod! For best performance be sure to use the significantly faster USB 2.0.

Brad’s Blog: Boot Mac OS X from a USB Flash drive
MacGeek: Boot Mac OS X x86 from a USB Pendrive

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Comments: 4

Comment from Vladimir
Time: February 27, 2007, 1:44 am

I guess this is cool but it seems completely pointless

Comment from ed
Time: February 27, 2007, 3:40 pm

This could be really useful for System Administrators for trouble shooting, being able to boot up from a known working OS install, etc

Comment from Billy
Time: April 29, 2009, 2:48 pm

This is a great Idea and yes Ed its best used for administrators. My need is to install OS X on a few older MAC’s that cannot read the CD the OS came on. The Flash install works great in this case. Also, I can use the flash drive to run a fully Bootable partition; excellent for securing your Mac by not installing an OS on it and use the Flash which could be locked away.

Comment from Duco
Time: May 17, 2009, 3:23 am

okej, But how can i instal it with vista or XP?

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February 26th, 2007