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Aquavit

(488 posts) Sat Mar 28, 2015, 01:42 AM Mar 2015

Making a bootable MacOS 10.6.8 image from Ubuntu

So I have a bit of a fun little issue with my old Macbook 3.1. It looks like my dvd drive is toast, and I need to upgrade from MacOS 10.5.8 to (at least) 10.6.8.

I know that it is possible to make a bootable Ubuntu 14.04 USB stick from Mac OS X, but what I'm not 100% sure on is this: can I make a bootable Mac OS 10.6.8 USB stick from Ubuntu 14.04? If so, does anyone in the group know how to do it?

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Making a bootable MacOS 10.6.8 image from Ubuntu (Original Post) Aquavit Mar 2015 OP

Here's a lead, it's for Fedora so you'll have to do some transliteration but the concepts are solid. sir pball Mar 2015 #1

Yes this some awesome topsales123 Apr 2015 #2

Have you tried Carbon Copy Cloner (for Mac) ? eppur_se_muova Jul 2015 #3

sir pball

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1. Here's a lead, it's for Fedora so you'll have to do some transliteration but the concepts are solid.

Reply to Aquavit (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 12:43 PM

Mar 2015

It does assume you have a bootable OS X ISO, which should be trivial assuming you have the 10.6 CD and a working drive in the Ubuntu box..

http://superuser.com/questions/505821/making-a-bootable-osx-usb-from-dmg-on-linux

topsales123

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2. Yes this some awesome

Reply to Aquavit (Original post)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 07:50 PM

Apr 2015

very good avice and helful info thanks for the post it really cool yes

eppur_se_muova

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3. Have you tried Carbon Copy Cloner (for Mac) ?

Reply to Aquavit (Original post)

Sun Jul 12, 2015, 09:19 PM

Jul 2015

It's supposed to let you make a bootable backup of your current system disk. I tried it, and it turned out the disk I was backing up was already damaged and couldn't boot -- but the copy booted on another machine. Might be worth looking at.

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