OSX Flash

Would it be against APPLE EULA to install the OSX on an APPLE usb flash drive?

 

Apple does not make USB flash drives...

 

Well you could install OS X on a flash drive, but you would have to use it on an Apple computer for it to be legal. But, I'm unsure if a flash drive would boot properly and the performance wouldn't be very good anyways. And I don't think it would work that well as a portable OS X unless all your Macs are identical, since trying plug-in and boot on different model Macs would likely corrupt things since the drivers would be all messed up.

 

Well, I'm pretty sure that all installs of leopard/tiger, come with the required drivers to be run on any mac that it's compatible with.

I know that you can infact boot from an external drive using a mac. Flash drive I'm not sure about. I think you can boot from a mac thats connected via firewire to another.

 

Yeah, Apple doesn't make USB flash drives, so its not possible?

 

ok than, if not a flash drive, howbout using an IPOD?

 

I don't understand, why are you trying to install OS X on an iPod (which coincidentally, the iPod Touch uses a version of OS X)?

 

just wondering, a professor had told me he installed ubunto on a flash drive, so was wondering if you could with os x.

 

Well, a flash drive is just a storage medium, and OSes are just stored on a storage medium, so yes, it can. Just you'd need quite a large flash drive.

But the fact of the matter is that violates the EULA of Mac OS X.

 

doesn't matter how you swing it, running the mac on a nonmac is a nogo as far as the eula. doesn't matter if its running on an apple brand hdd or flash drive or what.

just run ubuntu, you will ultimately have less problems trying to get that to work on your pc than you will osx. at least when ubuntu is working, it works. with osx you will never get it permanently up and running because of driver issues.

or if you just dislike windows vista, try out xp. works wonders.

 

ditto with masterchef341 ...

cheers ...

 

Yeah, I tried for 2 hours last night to put ubuntu on a pen drive, than it was late so I needed sleep. I'll give it another try again tonight.

 

I have tried it many times, I have Knoppix-STD always handy in a 2GB High Speed USB with all other recovery tools I may need. I keep playing with my System and it keep crashing so I need something to fix when nothing is working.

I have tried different variants, Win9x, XP, Vista, Ubuntu from USB and they works great but they eat your USB's life everytime you boot and they are reallyyyy slow. Even the fastest USB is not faster than a slowest HDD available in market today.

 

I had a kingston usb drive, and I could not get Ubuntu to work on it, I was told thatyou can't get Ubunto to work on a kingston usb, because of partitions.

 

I had created 3 partitions on the USB prior to installation. Dunno about specific errors with kingston. I used Diskpart under vista to create three partitions one for / , /boot & another for swap

 

what size usb? and how big was each partition?

 

yep, and booting from a usb device works extremely well for basic tasks.

and the purpose of installing OS X on a portable device, is that is is easily the best troubleshooting device possible, in fact, if you take your Mac into an Apple store to the genius bar, you can almost guarantee they will boot it up from an external install of OS X, to make sure it is not the OS causing the problems.

 

I got myself a 8gb stick I picked from ebay for less than $25. though its not best performing stick but I need it very less frequently. It has all my recovery tools in one place I call it 'magic stick'

boot can live in 100mb, swap is 2gb and rest is allocated to root.