falconers Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Hi there, I'm new to this OS X on different hardware, but I have a rather advanced question for part of a usb boot project I'm working on. I'm hoping you all can give me the benefit of your insight. I'd like to create a bootable USB drive that contains a windows and Mac boot image to allow installation of the base operating system to hardware. I've created a windows image, created an ISO and am able to boot this from a suitably prepared USB drive. Similarly I have created a lion/mountain lion/mavericks DMG to allow bootable USB creation and load the OS from. Now I want to be able to merge both of those. I've been looking at multiboot, xboot or yumi to see if I could leverage them. The more I look at those I run into file format problems on the USB and converting the DMG to ISO. I have now been looking at maybe using a usb with plop or a VM loaded to allow the boot to the I so or a different VM per image. Any ideas here guys? I'm thinking about trying to use chameleon to load the Mac OS X image since reading through the forums here, but I'm hoping someone here can help push me in the right direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IIIdefconIII Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Yumi is good but sardu is better i have all excisting os installers on a single external hdd with sardu so give it a try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falconers Posted November 25, 2013 Author Share Posted November 25, 2013 I have to ask for some clarification. So you can install any OS from a single USB drive with Sardu? Just to be clear, I'm trying to be able to use Sardu to put a ISO/DMG image on the USB drive, and then boot that drive on the appropriate hardware (apple for Mac OSX, PC for Windows/Linux) and install the OS. If so, can you post a quick or rough guide on how you accomplished this with Mac? It would be a MASSIVE help to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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