Installing Snow Leopard via USB?

[adster]

Hey peeps. I got my retail copy of Snow Leopard. Unfortunately, my Super Drive seems to not read Dual layered DVD's (including Snow Leopard, my regular Leopard, etc...)

Is there a way I can install booting from a USB drive? Or a Firewire drive?!? Thanks!

 

[shakenmartini]

Hey peeps. I got my retail copy of Snow Leopard. Unfortunately, my Super Drive seems to not read Dual layered DVD's (including Snow Leopard, my regular Leopard, etc...)

Is there a way I can install booting from a USB drive? Or a Firewire drive?!? Thanks!

Copy an image of the DVD to a 8 GiB flash drive or an empty USB/firewire hard drive partition.

This might help

http://michaelflux.com/how-to-install-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10a380

 

[Latro]

Here is how you can install snow leopard from usb with the retail version of the OS.

 

[Superperson]

Can this be done with an upgrade, not a clean install? I don't want to wipe my hard drive, just upgrade to SL. (Late to the party, I know.)

 

[Latro]

Yes you can do this with an upgrade, it does not require a clean install.