Sunday, May 20, 2007

Installing Mac OS X on a Flash Drive

Installing Mac OS X on a Flash Drive

change owner enable for disk
sudo /usr/sbin/vsdbutil -a /Volumes/xxx
sudo bless –verbose –folder “/Volumes/xxx/System/Library/CoreServices” –bootinfo

2 comments:

Alan said...

In summary, the steps are:

use 'Disk Utility' to format 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled) without Maco OS 9 Disk Driver

sudo /usr/sbin/vsdbutil -a /Volumes/your_disk

select 'Open Apple Install Packages' in Pacifist app

select package and choose the your_disk to install the files

need Setup Assistant by copy from System/Library/CoreServices of your running mac

Also need BaseSystem.pkg and Essentials.pkg from /Library/Receipts of your running mac

sudo bless -verbose -folder "/Volumes/your_disk/System/Library/CoreServices" -bootinfo -bootefi

Alan said...

Performance is better with firewire instead of USB external disk or flash