Preparing usb drive no mac
I read this article 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…
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I read this article ↗ 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!
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Well thats just it: I cant install iatkos: thats why I was going for snow leo.
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!
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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.
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