[Oscar]

I've had my 10v for a while now, and it's become quite the hobby for me.

My current configuration is a triple boot: SL/Win 7/Vista, though I'll probably dump Vista. I've also had stable configs with SL/XP, and SL/Ubuntu.

For a some time I had been wondering if it was possible to run Snow Leopard from a usb flash drive (installed to it, that is). So that's what I've just done, and in fact I'm running it that way right now.

It is almost painfully slow at times. But it's running. Current system is 10.6

I'll try to update to 10.6.3, but I expect there may be some issues there--so I wanted to post this before i proceed with that update. Edit: now running 10.6.3 successfully.

Anyway, it's just something I'd been thinking about, and I hadn't read anything to indicate that it has been done before. But since it's been done with linux, I was curious.

The only real usefulness I can see is if I ever have a drive failure.

By the way, I even removed the harddrive because I wanted to verify that I could boot directly from the USB key without Chameleon running off of the internal drive. It took a little doing, and I half expected a kernel panic... but it's working.

If anyone's interested in the procedure, let me know.

Cheers.

Oscar.

[etfly]

I have a SanDisk 16gb, a vista notebook, a iMac with 7. Will this run wery slowly? if yes maby its better to use Loepard insted... i have no idea how to do this.

[mech]

hey, this is a great idea. If you documented your steps, which I assume are few, then I'd be curious to read it. I have a 32GB SD card that I wanted to try this on (Class 10). Wonder if this would work on my mini 9?

Cheers

[underwhelmed]

Originally Posted by mech

hey, this is a great idea. If you documented your steps, which I assume are few, then I'd be curious to read it. I have a 32GB SD card that I wanted to try this on (Class 10). Wonder if this would work on my mini 9?

Cheers

Mini 9 can't boot from an SD card unless it's in a USB reader.

Running OS X off of anything USB is slow and tedious.

This thread is pretty old, doubt the OP will be back offering step by step instructions..

[Oscar]

OP here, if anyone's still interested... underwhelmed is right though. It's excruciatingly slow sometimes to run SL off of a usb stick. However, it's pretty straight forward, if you wanna give it a go. Just boot up the installer, and when you get to the hard drive selection screen, connect the USB stick you want to install to. Open up Disk Utility, format it in GUID so you'll see it available for install when you quit Disk Utility. Now just run the installer on it. If it won't boot, use either your mini running SL, or the installer to run NBI on the USB you just installed to.

Cheers.