Here's how to make a bootable (or not) USB stick from a disk image in OSX using Disk Utility found under: Applications/Utilities/ You can use this cloning method to make a bootable Mac OS X install USB stick or an ASD one. You could also use this method to clone a small hard drive or any volume you want, given that it fits on the size of your USB drive.  If the source volume that you want to clone already contains a System Folder...

This article lays out the steps in order to "burn" (or clone, or copy) a disk image (such as an ISO boot/install CD) onto an USB stick using only a vanilla Mac OS X environment that any Mac user already has available.  You do not need any additional or third party software since Mac OS X is UNIX based and comes with "dd" which is all it takes to accomplish this. Read that other article if you're looking for doing...

To boot any* PowerPC Mac (e.g. an iMac G3, an iBook G4, a PowerMac G5, etc...) from an USB stick or drive, FIRST know that if your model is 300mhz or faster, then first refer to the boot from CD guide and if it does not work, then follow these instructions: * The Lombard PowerBook G3 cannot boot from USB 1. Connect your USB stick/drive in a root USB port on your PowerPC Mac. 2. Power it on (or restart it if it's already running) and...

If you need instructions on how to make a USB flash drive for this tutorial, one for creating it on Windows can be found here. Creating the USB drive on a Mac running OS X is as simple as restoring an image with Disk Utility. The Leopard disc image used in this tutorial can be found here. Note: This tutorial assumes you have already created a bootable USB drive containing Leopard. 1. Shut down your PowerPC Mac. 2. Plug in your Leopard...

This tutorial used this copy of Leopard, a 16GB PNY USB 3.0 Flash drive, and Windows 10 version 1909. An 8GB drive should work fine, but that is the minimum size I would recommend to try. You will also need to download TransMac. The version used in this tutorial is TransMac 12.6. Note: TransMac costs $59, but a 15 day free trial is also offered and will work well enough for this purpose. Please purchase a license if you intend to use the...

The issue Got yourself an old PowerPC Mac with USB ports and would like to download files from MR on a Windows PC then copy those files to an USB stick and onto the old PowerPC Mac but the USB stick doesn't want to read in both the Mac and Windows? It works in Windows but when you insert it in the old Mac, it asks you to initialize/format it? An USB stick? But what about an USB HARD DRIVE? Note that "USB stick" in this...

Instead of being continually frustrated with SheepShaver, although an amazing piece of emulation software, I decided to resurrect my old PowerMac 7300. The problems I had were that the CMOS battery was dead, and the hard drive was tiny, only 6GB. The battery was replaced with one from Amazon for about $8.00  I had a stack of older hard drives, luckily one that was IDE and 120GB in size. Under OS 9, the OS needs to be installed in the...