can i clone my osx 10.6 DVD unto a flash drive?

[GabrielR]

i hear its possible to make a install emergency disk using a flash drive, i purchased a HP USB 16GB flashdrive v 165w, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820326108

i formated the drive as a Guid Partition, ignored preferences and all the stuff i could find online to see to it that i did it right but no go,

can anyone tell me if this drive is incompatible or which one i should exchange it for?

i tried cloning my original OSX Leopard DVD and i get errors when from both CCC and SuperDuper,



Cheers

 

[maflynn]

Use the disk utilities restore option to create a bootable copy of the installation disk.

 

[GabrielR]

Use the disk utilities restore option to create a bootable copy of the installation disk.

thank you

 

[phatqao]

booting from a USB drive will be very, very slow though.

 

[RRmalvado]

booting from a USB drive will be very, very slow though.

Installation from a USB drive will be faster than the Superdrive.

 

[DoFoT9]

Installation from a USB drive will be faster than the Superdrive.

wiki states

8x 10.56MB/s
16x 21.12MB/s
24x 31.68MB/s

i presume the SL DVDs are at about 8-16x, so it would be a significantly faster then that assuming the flash drive is of good quality

 

[Lokrado]

wiki states


i presume the SL DVDs are at about 8-16x, so it would be a significantly faster then that assuming the flash drive is of good quality

probably right, but i have ne problem reading at 30MB/s off my tumb drive. Even so most people i know have no problem reading at 25MB/s off theirs.

 

[maflynn]

booting from a USB drive will be very, very slow though.

I can't answer for the OP, but many hackintosh guides require a thumb drive to boot off of

 

[DoFoT9]

probably right, but i have ne problem reading at 30MB/s off my tumb drive. Even so most people i know have no problem reading at 25MB/s off theirs.

still faster the a DVD drive, and no latency issues. should be fine.