{"id":438,"date":"2011-03-25T20:19:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T20:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/?p=438"},"modified":"2022-12-05T13:34:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:34:35","slug":"create-usb-snow-leopard-mbr-installer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/create-usb-snow-leopard-mbr-installer.html","title":{"rendered":"Create USB Snow Leopard MBR Installer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I think these days the USB flash drive 8GB is cheap enough for us to dedicate one for Snow Leopard 10.6.3 retail DVD patched to install to MBR partition. With this patched MBR installation USB, we can use it to install Mac OS X to any computer using with iBoot cd. First we need a working mac os system, we can install an external USB hard drive first, then use it to make this one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>1. Use diskutilities to mount the SL 10.6.3 dvd.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2. Plug in the 8GB USB flash drive and make 1 partition GUID format with jounaled.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>3. Click the SL 10.6.3 DVD image and restore.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>4. Drag the SL image to source and the formated 8GB USB to destination and click restore. It will take about 30-45 minutes depends on the computer.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"igallery\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"preview\" title=\"restore the SL DVD image to USB flash\" href=\"\/media\/nv55c\/sm_usbmbr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"restore the SL DVD image\" src=\"\/media\/nv55c\/tn_usbmbr.jpg\" alt=\"restore the SL DVD image to USB flash\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>When it&#8217;s done, we should see 2 OS X Install DVD, USB and DVD.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"preview\" title=\"usb is done with dvd restoration\" href=\"\/media\/nv55c\/sm_usbmbr1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"usb is done with dvd restoration\" src=\"\/media\/nv55c\/tn_usbmbr1.jpg\" alt=\"usb is done with dvd restoration\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>5. Replace OSinstall (System\/Library\/PrivateFrameworks\/Install.framework\/Frameworks\/Osinstall.framework\/Versions\/A\/) and OSinstall.mpkg (System\/Installation\/Packages\/) to the correct folder on the USB DVD restored drive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"preview\" title=\"Osinstall.mpkg to system-installation-packages\" href=\"\/media\/nv55c\/sm_usbmbr2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Open USB drive and replace the patch files\" src=\"\/media\/nv55c\/tn_usbmbr2.jpg\" alt=\"Open USB drive and replace the patch files\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"preview\" title=\"Osinstall to System-Library-PrivateFrameworks-Install.framework-Frameworks-OSinstall.framework-Versions-A\" href=\"\/media\/nv55c\/sm_usbmbr4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Osinstall to System-Library-PrivateFrameworks-Install.framework-Frameworks-OSinstall.framework-Versions-A\" src=\"\/media\/nv55c\/tn_usbmbr4.jpg\" alt=\"Osinstall to System-Library-PrivateFrameworks-Install.framework-Frameworks-OSinstall.framework-Versions-A\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>When it&#8217;s done, we have a SL 10.6.3 install dvd patched for MBR partitions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The patched OSinstaller can be downloaded <del datetime=\"2018-01-30T17:19:18+00:00\">myHackInstaller<\/del> or <a title=\"deviato website\" href=\"\/\/deviato.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/06\/osinstall-10-6-3-10d575-patched-for-mbr-partitioned-hard-disks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-red w3-round-xlarge\">deviato.wordpress.com<\/button><\/a> or Google it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cheers,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>idog<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think these days the USB flash drive 8GB is cheap enough for us to dedicate one for Snow Leopard 10.6.3 retail DVD patched to install to MBR partition. With this patched MBR installation USB, we can use it to install Mac OS X to any computer using with iBoot cd. 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