blade1212 Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 Hi, I was thinking about various way to install OSX onto an NC10 without having an external DVD drive. I'm reluctant to have to buy an external DVD. Has anyone managed to load the OSX.ISO file onto a Sandisk Cruzer (either 8gb or 16gb verison) and get it to boot the OSX installation - just like a real external DVD ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142006-booting-osx-iso-from-a-sandisk-cruzer-usb-stick/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade1212 Posted December 20, 2008 Author Share Posted December 20, 2008 I guess nobody has tried this yet Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142006-booting-osx-iso-from-a-sandisk-cruzer-usb-stick/#findComment-1007592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogi Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 I can't do it..has something to do with the U3 partition thing on it... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142006-booting-osx-iso-from-a-sandisk-cruzer-usb-stick/#findComment-1011586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3t0x Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 This can be done, depending on the distro used... I've had luck with iDeneb 10.5.5 & iATKOS 5i. Here is what I did: Using disk utility: 1) Formatted USB (I used GUID) 2) Used 'Restore' option.... drag & drop iso image to Source, drag & drop USB drive to Destination 3) Clicked Restore took about 20-30 mins At this point the image was restored, but not bootable. I used the Chameleon 1.0.11 Installer to install the bootloader to the USB.... Booted to USB and installed. Went from 30 minute install to less than 5 mins. Soooo much nicer! Good Luck! Info on "how to" was obtained on this forum... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142006-booting-osx-iso-from-a-sandisk-cruzer-usb-stick/#findComment-1011731 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellair Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Can you be more specific where you got the "How to"? What USB stick did you use? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142006-booting-osx-iso-from-a-sandisk-cruzer-usb-stick/#findComment-1011749 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade1212 Posted December 23, 2008 Author Share Posted December 23, 2008 I tried a few different U3 tools to get it to work. Ultimately the problem seems to be that for ISO files sizes > 4gb, each of the ISO load programs fail to create the image properly on the USB CD/DVD drive. They appear to work, but the mounted CDs don't boot. I suspect these programs format the drive FAT32 which maxes out at 4GB. I did manage to get other CDs to boot ok (Hiren Boot CD for example) - which is handy to have when doing all the NC10 partition stuff. The link below is an updated version of "Universal Customizer" for U3 capable USB keys - let's you write custom ISOs to your USBKEY CD. Also this version fixed a bug in the original version which cripples your USB Key to 4GB. So it sorted out my 8GB Sandisk Cruzer Contour. This really is a neat program. As I say, doesn't appear to work for ISO > 4GB though. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GIT0SPXV PS I ended up using the ddmac partition trick to boot the OSX iso, so that particular issue has gone. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142006-booting-osx-iso-from-a-sandisk-cruzer-usb-stick/#findComment-1011867 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade1212 Posted December 24, 2008 Author Share Posted December 24, 2008 nice solution d3tox. I'll try that out. cheers. Edit - I wans't clear in my original post - I need to start in a windows XP environment, so I need to burn the ISO from there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142006-booting-osx-iso-from-a-sandisk-cruzer-usb-stick/#findComment-1011976 Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmonkey Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 another suggestion is buy a SATA/IDE to USB adapter, normally about $20 then just use a regular DVD rom, that what i did, i had the adapter and a spare drive, saved big time. Externals are a rip off Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142006-booting-osx-iso-from-a-sandisk-cruzer-usb-stick/#findComment-1012094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mckitrick Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 This can be done, depending on the distro used... I've had luck with iDeneb 10.5.5 & iATKOS 5i.Here is what I did: Using disk utility: 1) Formatted USB (I used GUID) 2) Used 'Restore' option.... drag & drop iso image to Source, drag & drop USB drive to Destination 3) Clicked Restore took about 20-30 mins At this point the image was restored, but not bootable. I used the Chameleon 1.0.11 Installer to install the bootloader to the USB.... Booted to USB and installed. Went from 30 minute install to less than 5 mins. Soooo much nicer! Good Luck! Info on "how to" was obtained on this forum... This didn't work for me. Disk Utility said something about not being able to scan the source. Doesnt' seem to like .iso files. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142006-booting-osx-iso-from-a-sandisk-cruzer-usb-stick/#findComment-1209924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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