I don't have an external drive and have never used CCC or SuperDuper. So I restored the Linux partition to its original - Mac OS X - state, which made it acceptable to the installer. This meant that the partition with the old 10.6.8 stuff was not used; the 10.10 Yosemite system went on the ex-Linux partition. Success, so far.
I'm running 10.6.8 and when I try to use BootCamp, it tells me I need "at least 10GB of free space", which is interesting since I have 21GB of free space. However, trying to fix this issue has seemed pointless at this rate and I remember there used to be way to create bootable USBs using only Disk Utility during the Vista era. I had tried converting my .iso to .dmg and mounting them and 'burning' them to the flash drive, but nothing has seemed to work. All the tutorials I have found online use BootCamp, which is what I want to stay away from since it does not work for me.
Create A Bootable Linux Drive On Mac Os 10.6.8
Do you have access to another Mac? If you do why don't you create a USB thumb drive OS installer drive and just get to Sierra (if you have a SSD) and High Sierra (if you have a HDD). Apple is still struggling with APFS which is why I would stay with Sierra with a SATA SSD installed. This is not a problem with a PCIe/NVMe drive used in newer systems.
Note: This flashdrive will be using the Apple Partition Map scheme. This differs from the flash drive created using the Disk Utility, which used the Master Boot Record scheme. In other words, there is more than one way to create a USB flash drive installer from a Snow Leopard ISO file.
Enter the commands given below to create the USB flash drive installer. Here, an assumption is made that the ISO file name is snow leopard install.iso and the file resides in your Downloads folder. Also, an assumption is made that the identifier is disk2. If necessary, make the appropriate substitutions.
Enter the command given below to create the USB flash drive installer. Here, an assumption is made that the ISO file name is snow leopard install.iso and the file resides in your Downloads folder. If necessary, make the appropriate substitutions.
I couldn't find a method that worked as Disk Utility doesn't cooperate with OS 10.6 .dmg or .iso files, the instructions above might work on older versions of macOS, but I couldn't get it to work on Big Sur. But then I discovered that the same method I've been using to create bootable linux thumb drives works with the 10.6 .iso AND .dmg (depending on which one you have), and it's way easier and works on any operating system (mac/windows/linux).
As another user noted, the Balena Etcher method works great on a Mac. On my 2021 MacBook Pro (with M1 Pro chip), I created a bootable OS X Snow Leopard USB drive using a .DMG of Snow Leopard I downloaded on the internet. And then installed Snow Leopard on a 2009 MacBook Pro without a hiccup.
A few months back, I saw that I was running out of space on my home theater Mac Mini. This was a 2007 Mac Mini with 2 GBs of RAM running 10.6.8, with a 1 TB drive that held media content and 2 TB backup drive connected via FireWire 400. I also noticed that it was struggling to play the latest HD movies from the iTunes Store.
When I researched the subject, I found a lot of people online trying to run 10.6.8 on 2011 Mac Minis with varying degrees of success. The most common issues were lower performance, video that displayed a very pinkish hue on the screen and Thunderbolt not working. However, I hit pay dirt when I came across this Apple discussion forum thread because someone in the thread named newfoundglory had not only figured out the necessary driver support; they had also been nice enough to package up the drivers into one installer package: the NFG Mac Mini 2011 installer
Why was this? After all, the 2011 Mini never came with an internal DVD player. This should have worked; except for the fact that the 2011 Mini was never supposed to run 10.6.8 either. All of the 2011 Macs that ran 10.6.8 were laptops that came with internal optical drives.
You can create a new partition on your hard drive with Disk Utility, this does not require you to reformat the drive and you should not lose any data (besides, you have that backup just in case something goes wrong, right?).
LarryI have a 2012 macbook pro and a Mac Pro, both running 10.9.5 so I can use FCP7. Unfortunately the browsers are so old they are causing problems and anyway I need to get a new phone with the new IOS, and that will not work with 10.9.5.What would you charge to take the drives from both macs and create dual boot on both so I can upgrade one partition on each. I prefer cloning both for protection before we do anything and would like a clone of both anyway
If you open App Store and click Updates, you can update your Lion installer to version 1.0.16. It replaces your copy if you allowed it to self-erase at installation. But using the InstallESD.dmg from inside this installer (SHA1 = 8ef208772f878698e9dd92b3632e25b23ffc9ca7) creates a bootable 10.7.3 (11D50) USB stick. That is cool.
I had a Snow Leopard .dmg for this, but not an install DVD. As part of this process, I create a partition on the external USB for the Snow Leopard install. I then use that partition to install the Snow Leopard OS on another partition, which will be my OS bootable partition. If you have a Snow Leopard DVD, the first partition I make below is not necessary.
I have a Macbook pro (late 2009) running OSX 10.6.8. I want to partition a flash drive and install my Ubuntu iso image onto it. Then I want to boot up from it by (restarting my computer and) holding down the option key.
The goal of this exercise for me was to install Arch Linux on the internal hard disc, not to create a permanent USB thumb drive. So after installing rEFInd, I wiped the thumb drive and created an Arch live system for installation. No multi-flavour thumb drives here.
So Linux it is but I have a problem, the CD drive has long ago ceased to function for me to have to consider the creation of a bootable Linux distro USB of which I am not finding easy as all the guidance on the web appears to be for later operating systems for software that doesn't work with Snow Leopard.
What I have not done was what I have been trying to do on a Macbook with a knackered cd drive to replace or maybe dual boot with snow leopard to use Linux online and snow leopard for my apps one of which I cannot do without given the learning curve for Gimp is far too steep for me and yes, I have given it a good go. But if not dual boot just install Linux complete and run SL and my apps via an external drive of which is what I am sort of doing now given reinstalling on another drive from a Time Machine backup killed my Photoshop installation - a problem with Adobe I understand, but I have the original installation on an external drive to be using it that way. And am not worried about losing SL if something should go wrong as I have the Time Machine, a bootable SL install USB and I even have two cloned drives.
Because of this, it's important to keep a bootable Snow Leopard install disk around if you have a Snow Leopard machine or manage them. However, there is no automatic way to create this drive on your Mac, so I'll show you how to do so in this tutorial.
A bootable macOS (previously, OS X) install disk is a portable device containing all the necessary installation files for a selected version of macOS. Why would you want to create an external boot drive for your Mac?
You can create a bootable installer for any operating system if you have the right installer. In older versions of macOS, you could find all the previous installers in the list of purchased apps in your App Store account.
Solution to no-boot problem.These results were consistent.I needed to write the bootable Linux Mint ISO image to a USB thumbdrive.I found that my Macbook 3,1 could find a bootable USB thumbdrive if the USB was created with Rufus, but the Macbook could NOT find the USB thumbdrive if it was created by Fedora Media Writer or Balena Etcher.I tried this a few times by trying to created bootable GParted USB drives, and bootable Clonezilla USB drives. The Macbook would boot if they were created by Rufus, but not if they were created by Fedora Media Writer or Balene Etcher.The results were consistent.
Two Ways to Create a macOS Sierra Thumb Drive - An archived tutorial from The Verdict (no longer online) that explains how to create a bootable macOS Sierra USB flash drive for a Hackintosh with Terminal and Clover.
Create a Bootable OS X El Capitan Thumb Drive - A detailed tutorial from ArsTechnica that covers how to create a bootable OS X El Capitan USB flash drive for a Hackintosh (or a Mac) using the DiskMaker X app.
Create a Bootable OS X 10.9 Mavericks Thumb Drive - An ArsTechnica tutorial that explains how to create a bootable OS X Mavericks USB flash drive for a Hackintosh (or a Mac) with the excellent DiskMaker X.
Create a Bootable OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion USB Drive - A detailed ArsTechnica piece to create a bootable OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" USB flash drive for a Hackintosh (or a Mac) using the helpful DiskMaker X app.
The current release is 0.14.It is available in various forms.Both disk image distributions include the Installer package andcan be burned as a bootable CD as well.All three binary distributions can be used to install rEFIton a USB memory stick or other disk drives.
this past weekend, after being fed up with not being able to see the windows partition, i decided to start from scratch. i should mention that the first Windows 7 Pro disc i had, i downloaded from my school's MSDNAA website and burned the iso directly. this disc, for some reason or another, would freeze upon the "completeling installation..." stage of the install. at the time, i did some research and people were saying that to get past this freeze, one had to delete the partition created by Boot Camp Assistant (BCA) and create a new partition while in the Windows 7 installer. this is where my problem stems from. knowing this, i downloaded another "retail" iso from a bittorrent site just in case my MSDNAA iso was corrupted somehow (since i already had a legitimate key, it didn't matter where the install source came from).***BEWARE, doing this is DANGEROUS, and could leave you with a non-working system if you do not follow carefully!1) Make a backup of any important files you have on your current Windows partition. Since you cannot access the volume on Mac OS X, this means you must boot into Windows and copy what you want to another drive or partition. Additionally, make sure you have a very recent Time Machine backup.2) Boot from your Snow Leopard install DVD and bring up Disk Utility. Erase your Mac's internal HD, so that there is only one partition, and it is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Then, quit Disk Utility and bring up the Time Machine Restore window of the installer. Restore your Mac from the latest backup. This could take a while.3) Boot back into Mac OS X on your recently-restored HD. Bring up Boot Camp Assistant and partition your disk to whatever size you prefer. Insert your Windows 7 disc and restart.4) When the Windows installer starts, click through the series of prompts until it brings you to a list of your internal disks. Click once to select the partition labeled "BOOTCAMP" and click FORMAT. Once this is complete, continue with your install.and that's it! all is well in Windows land! 2ff7e9595c
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