Preparing usb drive no mac?????

[palz]

I read this article (http://lifehacker.com/5351485/how-to-build-a-hackintosh-with-snow-leopard-start-to-finish) on how to prepare a usb drive with a retail snow leopard disc. Problem is, it needs a MAC. Which defeats the entire hackintosh purpose, right?

I have a functional 10.5.7 iAtkos disc that maybe can work like windows p.e., I can use the terminal to modify the usb drives??

Another problem is that I dont got 2 dvd drives, so I cant use the iatkos disc to rip the snow leopard disc.
If thats the case, can I use ubuntu to rip the snow leopard disc? I mean lucid lynx.


PLEASE HELP ASAP!!!

[palz]

Please help

[Erigz]

If you can, just install iAtkos, use it to prepare your USB drive, then erase iAtkos' partition and install Snow Leopard with prepared USB drive on it.

[palz]

Well thats just it: I cant install iatkos: thats why I was going for snow leo.

[Erigz]

Well, Ubuntu's utilities can partition a pendrive using GPT, so this part souldn't be a problem.
I guess there's also a way to "restore" partition from ISO file, so you could get a DMG image of Snow Leopard disc, convert it to ISO and then restore usb partition. Installing chameleon from unix based system shouldn't be much of a problem either.

But if I were you, I would first try other Leopard distro eg. iDeneb 10.5.8 Lite

[palz]

OK... I got Xelabo's leopard image working in vmware, and I have an 8GB phlash drive formatted and ready.
It also reads the Mac OS X Install DVD for snow leopard. Problem is, it doesn't detect the dvd drive in disk utility!!!