HELP: Create a OSX BootDisk (for any Intel Mac System)

[XSLord]

Hi Everyone,

Last couple of weeks I have been trying (via Google search) to find out how to create a bootdisk which would allow me to use it to boot from any Intel Mac System, but have not find any suitable discription on how to do it.

So i would really appreciate if somebody could help me!

Kind regards
XSLord

 

[AliensAreFuzzy]

You could just install a copy of OSX on an external drive and then to boot to it, hold Option on startup with the drive plugged in.

 

[XSLord]

You are completely right, didn't though it would be so SIMPLE!

I already had an external USB Drive connected to my Mac Mini, so after reading your reply, I said to myself "could it be so simple, well let's try it", so i unplugged it and connected it to my MacBook Pro, and to my surprise it just worked!

The reason i though it would not work, was because i had already created a minimum OSX (Tiger) installation on a 4GB Flashkey on my MacBook Pro and when i connected it to my Macbook it did startup but the screen was totally messed up.

I got a lot of experience with imaging in windows xp, and it's totally impossible to start/run it on (even) a similar system (ie HP nw8440 image on a HP nw8430, just forget it) without "sysprepping" an image, even cloning a windows xp drive between 2 identical systems (ie Dell Precision 5100) is not recommended.

So with that in mind I was convinced having the same experience with OSX.

Once more this proves how great apple systems are!

Thanx for your help.

PS: now i need to figure out how to strip OSX to only the most essential stuff.

 

[XSLord]

I would like to the same on an USB Memory stick of 4G

 

[Consultant]

Intel Tiger was machine specific, thus a copy from a different line of mac don't play well.

Leopard is not machine specific, however, PPC cannot boot intel install and vice versa.