Thank you very much. That is helpful. I was under the impression
you can't boot from the USB port. I advised her she should buy
at least a 32-GB thumb drive.
I found an article in a Google search in which the
author said that the trouble with USB drives was that you can't
boot from them. That article was a few years old, like tiger,
and this may not be true on the newer systems.
Again, many thanks.
Gordon Smith writes:
> 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.
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