On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:09 PM, Andy Lee wrote:
* It annoys me to wait for CDs/DVDs to boot, so (like another person who posted) I like to have a small bootable partition on a hard drive somewhere. Someone else pointed out you can boot from a thumb drive, which is a great idea I will have to try next time I download an OS seed.
And the command to blast down a dmg of a system onto said partition such that it can be booted is....
sudo asr -source /Path/to/SeedDownload.dmg -target /Volumes/ MyBootablePartitionThatWillBeNuked -erase -noverify -noprompt
It is every bit as destructive to MyBootablePartitionThatWillBeNuked as the paramaters imply. Once done, you can reboot and hold down the <option> key to select the volume.
It'll be interested to see what kind of performance one achieves when booting from an SD card. Given their price ($40 for a class-6 SDHC card), it would be an attractive and convenient option.
Certainly, I know that when I have a moment, I'm going to prep a 16GB card with two bootable partitions; one containing an emergency Leopard boot image configured to use my user account on the internal drive and one that contains DiskWarrior and a couple of other tools.
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