mingistech Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 I have an 8GB USB Flash Drive that I'm interested in installing Leopard on. Has anyone been able to have this successfully work for them? I'd love to hear some feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2LMan Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 try it and give us a holler! The best way to get answers here is to try it for yourself. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mingistech Posted April 24, 2008 Author Share Posted April 24, 2008 try it and give us a holler! The best way to get answers here is to try it for yourself. Good luck! With this being such a mature scene I'm sure many people here have had experience with this. If I don't get any feedback before the weekend I'll just go in blind and see what I can do... but I'd love to get some info on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fun Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 I was able to install Jas 10.4.8 on a Flash drive. It runs pretty slow, as you might expect. Had to use MBR rather than GUID I think. Prior to that install, the only thing I could get running on the Flash drive was deadmoo (using dd). But the Jas install worked. Had no luck with Leo. It would sometimes say that installation was successful, but it wouldn't boot and I couldn't figure out how to modify the MBR to coax it into booting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mingistech Posted April 24, 2008 Author Share Posted April 24, 2008 I was able to install Jas 10.4.8 on a Flash drive. It runs pretty slow, as you might expect. Had to use MBR rather than GUID I think. Prior to that install, the only thing I could get running on the Flash drive was deadmoo (using dd). But the Jas install worked. Had no luck with Leo. It would sometimes say that installation was successful, but it wouldn't boot and I couldn't figure out how to modify the MBR to coax it into booting. Thanks for the info. I was thinking a Leo4All v.3 install with the drive. It's to use at work in our all Dell offices. I'd love to get this working even if I have to use my old Jas 10.4.8 install disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecron Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 i just installed it on a 120GB hdd, the easiest way to install osx86 I have an 8GB USB Flash Drive that I'm interested in installing Leopard on. Has anyone been able to have this successfully work for them? I'd love to hear some feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbenson04 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Is it necessary to format the hdd first? I got it working on my laptop just by partitioning like 20gb for OSX but I have a spare hdd I put in an enclosure and I can't get the installer to detect it. I have it formatted for FAT32, should I do NTFS? i just installed it on a 120GB hdd, the easiest way to install osx86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_webi Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 osx on usb flash drive is terrible slow ... but no problem with chameleon bootloader ... fastest way is to install on hd, than clone with CCC to usb flash drive, after that just install Chameleon on flsh drive ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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