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How to Create a Leopard Start-Up Flash Drive

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How to Create a Leopard Start-Up Flash Drive

Installing Leopard on a flash drive allows you to boot your Mac computer from the flash drive in order to make adjustments to your system. Features like “Repair Disk” cannot run on the active startup disk. To make changes using Terminal or to adjust system settings in unusual ways, a readily available alternative startup drive is essential to troubleshooting. Once you boot from the flash drive, you can make adjustments to your Mac hard drive to restore functionality.

Things You'll Need

  • Retail Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 DVD
  • 8GB or higher USB flash drive
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Instructions

    • 1

      Load the Leopard DVD into your Mac's optical drive.

    • 2

      Go to the “Apple” menu and select “System Preferences.” Click on “Start up Disk” then select the Leopard DVD from the window. Press “Restart.”

    • 3

      Proceed through the language selection screen and the agreement. In the “Utility” menu, open “Disk Utility.”

    • 4

      Highlight the flash drive in the menu on the left side of the window. Select the “Partition” tab.

    • 5

      Create one partition on the flash drive by selecting “1 Partition” in the “Volume Scheme” menu. Enter a name for the flash drive and set the format to “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)."

    • 6

      Format the drive as a startup disk by clicking the “Options” button at the bottom of the window. Choose the “GUID Partition Table” as your partition scheme. Click “Okay” to close the “Options” window. Click “Apply” in the “Partition” screen. Close Disk Utility by selecting “Quit” from the “Disk Utility” menu.

    • 7

      Prepare to install Leopard on the flash drive. Select the flash drive in the “Install Mac OS X” screen. Click on the “Customize” button. Remove unnecessary features so Leopard will fit on your flash drive. You can deselect “Additional Fonts,” “Language Translations,” “Printer Drivers” and “X11.”

    • 8

      Install Leopard on the flash drive by pressing “Done.”

Tips & Warnings

  • You must have a retail copy of Leopard to create a startup flash drive. The installation disk that ships with your computer can only be installed on that computer model.

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