![]() You’ll need an image of the Snow Leopard install DVD first though, of course. Here are the necessary links:Īnd if you’re hoping to make a bootable USB installer for Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) then there is, sort of, a way to do it. These are particularly useful if you need to make a drive for installing OS X Lion (10.7) or Mountain Lion (10.8), since the createinstallmedia tool didn’t exist back then and the process is a little different (but no more difficult). If you want a bit more hand-holding through the process then I heartily recommend Dan Frakes’ how-to guides over at Macworld. Apple even provides the instructions on how to do this. So the answer? Bootable USB installers for OS X. Download that 5GB file once, then use any old USB stick 1 with Apple’s createinstallmedia utility to create a bootable drive you can use again and again. Or if your only means of downloading the file is the computer in front of you that needs said OS installation. Especially if you’ve a flakey internet connection. Most of the time this is great – a welcome advance in the software world – but sometimes, like when you need to re-install the whole OS, a 5GB download isn’t particularly convenient. If you’re a Mac user, it can’t have escaped your attention that all updates to OS X come via the Mac App Store nowadays. ![]() Sallonoroff /about /blog /blog/archive /blog/stats /search Make a bootable USB drive with createinstallmedia.
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