thinking about putting the image to an external, as a seperate partition.
then use the usb stick, as my usb stick. Good idea?
it looks kinda flimsy, not sure how it will hold up.
Your USB stick is write protected. Also, Disk utility recognizes it as CD/R media, strike 2.
Here are the instructions for coping the restore drive:
I'm going to try and explain this step by step:
1. Download and install Onyx, this is so you can see hidden files on the Apple drive.
2. Make the invisible files visible with Onyx (Parameters tab/Finder/Misc. Options/Show hidden files).
3.Double click the Mac OS X installer .dmg file that was hidden so it'll mount to your desktop.
4. Download and install Carbon Copy Cloner.
5. Open CCC and for the source, pick the the Mac OS X installer image on your desktop.
6. For the destination, you should choose your formatted 8GB flash drive.
7. Click the clone button and it will make a bootable, system installable copy on your new flash drive. It will not copy iLife though, that step is next.
8. The reason you have to do step 7 is we need the hidden system files to make bootable for the next step.
9. Once your new drive is cloned with the installer, boot from it to make sure everything's OK.
10. Once booted back to your desktop, with both the Apple drive and your new USB drive plugged in, start CCC again.
11. Make the Apple USB flash drive your source and your USB drive your destination.
12. This is important! There's a check box on the right side under the source, click it. It say's "Delete items that don't exist on the source".
13. Before you start there should be a tiny little green light that say's the drive will be bootable. If it's red, you screwed up, start over.
14. This the final step. Hit the clone button, it will copy all the files from the Apple USB disk but leave the bootable files on your USB disk alone. It will copy and than it will verify. If everything went OK, you'll get a message that it was successful.
You now should have a working bootable copy with iLife installed on it. I've done it twice and booted several times from it, it works perfectly.
Just a quick follow up to copy process of the USB restore disk.
Some of you have had success and some have had the "not enough disk space warning.
Once you get to step 12 and you check the box that say's "it'll delete the files
that don't exist on the source disk", it also say's it (will try) and unmount both disks from the desktop.
THis is important, it HAS to unmount both disks to make an exact copy or it won't work and you'll get the "not enough space warning.
To make it work properly, after step 8, make sure and close down your programs and REBOOT THE COMPUTER. Some of you are not doing this and that's why you're having problems.
If it for some reason it won't unmount the disks on the second copy, stop it and try it again. It takes about 15-20 seconds for CCC to Unmount the disks. Once this is done you're good to go.
If you follow my very detailed steps there shouldn't be a problem.
