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A bootable USB drive is a handy tool if you need to reinstall OS X Yosemite on your Mac, or if you're updating other Macs. To create this drive, download the OS X Yosemite installer from the App store and then use a specific command in Terminal to load it onto the USB disk.
Or read our to learn how to use this site. The time has come for me to say goodbye to Snow Leopard for online use since Firefox pulled the plug last year in it's support of Snow Leopard for me to look to other operating systems where becasue of prior experience of Linux, well Linux was the logical way forward given my computer a won't run anything more than Lion of which is also not supported by just about everything. So Linux it is but I have a problem, the CD drive has long ago ceased to function for me to have to consider the creation of a bootable Linux distro USB of which I am not finding easy as all the guidance on the web appears to be for later operating systems for software that doesn't work with Snow Leopard. Has anyone any ideas or at least a solution to this problem of creating a bootable USB in snow leopard?
Alas that is not working either, to find this; unount(/Volumes/FAT32): Resource busy - try 'diskutil unmount' Where this is why I have been avoiding the terminal function for the rabbit holes I can perceive opening up because I don't know enough about coding to know what I am doing. And then there's this; To at least have an idea of what doesn't work and what does, on a Macbook of this age, where there is one option open to me and that is to buy a bootable Linux USB off ebay. But thanks anyway.