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i noticed what apple stores use for triage drives. a firewire drive that powers off the port like a USB drive. And when it loads it has 10.4 and 10.5 and utilities and such. I would like to have my own, instead of lugging all the dvds around. Any suggestions? do i just make images of 10.4 and 10.5? I want it for my own machine. Anybody got some clues how to make one?
Thanks a bunch guys
I have a 360 GB portable external drive (I got mine from Small Dog Electronics). I partitioned it so that there was a partition large enough to hold the OS and all of my recovery/troubleshooting software (TechTools, DiskWarrior, etc...). I think my 10.4 partition was about 5-7 GB, but I used 15 for 10.5. I left the rest of the hard drive as portable storage (movies, music, photos and so on), but if you really wanted to, you could do separate partitions for different versions of the system (10.4, 10.5 and so on).
Simply attach the external drive to your computer, boot from the OS install disk, and install to the external disk. Now boot from that external, and install your utilities. Make sure you run any updates to the utilities while booted from that drive.
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