This USB thumb drive was then recognized on Mac systems as the Mac OS X Install DVD. In Ubuntu, I was able to rip the Snow Leopard disc to an ISO (Google it), and then format a USB thumb drive in such a way as to allow it to hold the Snow Leopard data. I was unable to attempt the advised solution: using a Mac to rip the disc, and then restoring it to the USB stick.įortunately, I use Ubuntu, Windows, and Mac. There have been two incidents that required the USB technique, and during incident one, the available working Mac lacked a usable CD/DVD drive of its own. I had assiduously Googled the method at least twice, but the results I found were not immediately helpful.
However, I do hope this is what you are looking for. I write this now, and place it online, for my own benefit as much as anybody else's. The solution? Clone Snow Leopard to a USB stick (somehow) to run Disk Utility, or whatever else you need. Additionally, the external CD/DVD drives we have available are in use elsewhere or otherwise unreliable. Somehow or other, we need to fix a Mac and that Mac doesn't have a usable CD/DVD drive. This is a problem that I have struggled with a bit at my job at MIS.