PNY USB Stick and Bad Axe 2

[BJMoose]

I haven't been able to try an installation of OSX86 on a USB stick for my system because the biggest I had was 2gb. I just received an 8gb PNY USB 2 stick drive today that I got from eBay for $31USD including shipping. I set my system bios to boot from usb first and then went about just doing a normal install of uphuck's v1.4iR3 and PascalW's update to 10.4.10. It's a fairly slow install compared to a hard drive, but it was recognized by disk utility right away so I partitioned the stick drive as OS Extended Journaled (MBR) and away I went. About a half hour later it was done.

 

It accepted the updates from Apple just fine. As an OS, it operates pretty slowly but acceptable for what I want to use if for. I installed a retail copy of CopyCatX on it which also worked well.

 

All I really want to do with this drive is use it to back up and restore my system. I made a backup of my real system drive which has 62gb of software on a 130gb partition in only 18 minutes. As I'm typing this, I am now restoring that backup to the system disk. It say it should only take 16 minutes so we shall see.

 

This was a very painless procedure and I can now use CopyCatX to make images of my OSX86 systems at various stages just as I do with my Windows setup and Ghost 12. Ghost 12 works for copying the OSX partition too, but I have to boot up windows to do that and I wanted to keep the 2 systems separated as much as possible.

 

If anyone has any questions or a desire for more details, let me know.

[BJMoose]

Just an update: Successful backup and restore of my entire system from the USB stick. CopyCatX image restored boot sectors et al.