Hi Martin I suggest you re-format the thumb drive to Mac OS X Journalled. Otherwise, you won't be able to boot from it. This means that you'll have to partition the drive as Guide Partition. Do that under the Partition tab of Disk Utility.
Make sure your thumb drive is large enough to handle the old OS, I suggest you'd need at least 16GB. I hope that was of some help. Gordon On 1 Jun 2012, at 15:54, Martin McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: My wife's iMac uses the Intel processor but still runs one of the last versions of Tiger and we plan to upgrade it to Lion. We plan to save her home folder on a thumb drive in case the upgrade should go South. Will the Tiger version of diskutility do this for us? Most thumb drives I have seen use a FAT32 file system so we will need to reformat it. I have a Mac here at work sitting right in front of me but it is running snowleopard so anything I know about it may not apply in tiger. I just want to save all the customizations she put on the system and don't care at all about the operating system as it will be replaced. I will be using voiceover to reformat the thumb drive and will probably just copy her home folder to the new drive as a safety measure in case the upgrade melts down. The only other thing I might want to save are the network settings so as not to have to rebuild them from scratch. Any suggestions are appreciated. Martin McCormick <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
