Chameleon 2 USB Key?

[NYC Coyote]

Is it possible to install Chameleon to a USB stick and boot a computer off of it?

 

Not have the OS on the USB stick...Only Chameleon? Also is it possible to have drivers for a large number of devices within it?

 

The idea behind this is to make a nice, graphical boot disk that can boot a retail OS X dvd and install it (both 10.5 and hopefully 10.6).

 

So once installed, keeping the usb stick in to boot the computer, but after chameleon, the OS installation is on the internal HD.

 

This way the user has the choice of always booting from the stick, or installing chameleon on their HD and just copying everything over from the USB to boot their PC without the stick.

 

Pretty much I want to create a Chameleon version of EFI-X. Is it even possible for Chameleon to support a large number of different hardware profiles? So it can work my devices (sigmatel audio, nvinjectgo, etc) but can also work for others?

[BJMoose]

Is it possible to install Chameleon to a USB stick and boot a computer off of it?

 

Pretty much I want to create a Chameleon version of EFI-X. Is it even possible for Chameleon to support a large number of different hardware profiles? So it can work my devices (sigmatel audio, nvinjectgo, etc) but can also work for others?

Hi, this is exactly what Chameleon is about. For example, on my two systems listed in my sig, the Gigabyte board is completely, 100% vanilla, and the BadAxe2 board is 99.999% vanilla (only the sound has to be activated via S/L/E). All other kexts and drivers are on the USB stick. You need to install the retail disk with a Chameleonlike CD first, as the USB stick won't yet allow that yet.

 

But once the that's installed, it can do even more. Currently, on my Gigabyte board, I've got the entire Chameleon stick transferred to the 200mb EFI partition that every GUID format creates. Now the bootloader loads directly from the hard drive with no need at all for the USB stick.

 

Read a couple of the tutorials to get a feel for how this all is done. And search the threads for your precise board and you might find a lot of 'how to' answers right there.