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Deal · Mar 31, 2004, 11:22 AM

I just got a 1GB, USB flash memory (thumb drive as some call it) and was wondering if anybody has figured out a way to boot to one of these?

When I try to load an OS on it, it says it can't. Has anybody tried putting a boot-able image on it with carbon copy cloner?

What I would like to do is make it boot-able and put Norton Utilities, Disk Warrior, Tech Tool on it and use it as a mini utility drive.

Probably not possible, but would like to hear if anybody has succeeded.

Thanks

yoyoman · Mar 31, 2004, 12:40 PM

Thumb drive. Never herd of that term before. Do you mean a pen drive?!?!?

-Q- · Mar 31, 2004, 12:47 PM

Yes. Thumb drive=pen drive=flash memory drive.

And no, I've not heard of anyone installing a bootable copy of the OS on there. It may be that the OS wouldn't even check that drive to see if a bootable system was on there. Doesn't mean it can't be done tho'...

yoyoman · Mar 31, 2004, 01:50 PM

what. Never herd of pen drive,

reader50 · Mar 31, 2004, 03:40 PM

Flash drive.

You can boot from it if you have an AGP-architecture Mac. However, you need to format it as HFS+ before OSX will boot - most flash drives come from the factory formatted to DOS.

Deal · Mar 31, 2004, 10:32 PM

I re-formated it HFS+, and when installing the software saw it but gave me the little red minus symbol (=no go).

I think I'll try carbon copy cloner and try to image it.

I was attempting this on a dual G5, so it meets the AGP criteria.

I'll write back if I get this working.

reader50 · Mar 31, 2004, 11:31 PM

The installer probably wanted more than 1 GB free for the default install. If you are willing to cut some stuff out, I'm pretty sure you can get a working OSX install into 1 GB.