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Advertisement Battle of the Thumb Drive Linux Systems These days, it only takes an increasingly-cheap USB thumb drive and a program like UNetbootin to Read more People put linux on their flash drives all the time.

However, itd be nice to be able to get the same live experience we get with Linux using OS X.

With a distribution of OS X 10.6.2 called iPortable Snow, we can.

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Advertisement Youll need an actual Mac to create the thumb drive (some Hackintoshes may work; mine didnt).

Search your favorite torrent site for iPortable Snow and download it.

While its downloading, format your external hard drive or thumb drive (Youll need at least an 8 GB thumb drive for this).

Open up Disk Utility and select the drive you want to put OS X on.

Go to the Partition tab and create one partition, formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Hit Options and make sure youre using the Master Boot Record option.

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You should get a window like this: Advertisement Double click the icon with the umbrella labeled iPortableSnowx86.

That should automatically open a program called CopyCatX, which will look like this: Advertisement In the first window, head to the Backup or Restore section, change the selected partition to the one you formatted for your Hackintosh, and click the BackupRestore button.

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Use the iPortableSnowx86 volume archive file on the iPortable Snow disk image.

After its done restoring, go back to the iPortable Snow Install folder.

Open First Aid. In there, youll find a program called iPortable Bootfix.

Open it. Continue through it normally, but on the third page, click Change Install Location (this is very important ).

Otherwise, itll install a new bootloader on your Mac that will break it.

Go ahead and rename the hackintosh partition whatever you like for the sake of personalization.

Advertisement You should now be able to boot from your thumb drive just like you would a live Linux thumb drive.

Instead of booting into your computers OS, youll get the Chameleon screen with a few choices.

So, if you have some time, give this a shot and let us know how it goes in the comments.

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