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Run OS X from a USB Drive

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Re: Run OS X from a USB Drive

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Post by Groxx »

I have a feeling they're doing things entirely incorrectly.

1) this is for Hackintoshes (should be in the title here, but isn't), and it uses a 10.6.2 hackintosh distribution, not your standard install disks.

2) they're using CopyCatX, a drive duplicator, instead of the disk utility. Does this matter?

3) CopyCatX is a $60 piece of software, though it shows it in what appears to be the disk image containing the portable 10.6.2 image... I wonder if this could be construed as supporting piracy.

4) If you're running on Mac hardware, you can just install to an external drive of any type, or image your drive to another, and it all works happily. CopyCatX isn't necessary there, why would it be necessary for copying a disk image in another case? It's an image.

Re: Run OS X from a USB Drive

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Post by adolph »

radicaldreamer wrote: post #4
adolph wrote: post #3

I'm trying to imagine why anyone would find this useful. Does anyone have any idea?

To repair your disk using DiskWarrior etc.

DiskWarrior has a live CD/DVD that has just enough OS to run DiskWarrior. A full distribution of OSX isn't needed.

Thanks for reminding me that I need to update DiskWarrior for 10.6!

Re: Run OS X from a USB Drive

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Post by hackermom »

This is for "hackintosh" setups, just to point out. Mach/OS X itself, on a real machine, actually treats all block devices identically - without hacking around, you can boot a Mac off of anything, be it a USB stick, a harddrive attached over USB or FireWire, even booting one Mac from another Mac's internal storage by directly linking the two via FireWire (so-called Target Mode).
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