Curious if the setup.exe will run thru Wine. Mac Air, I can't seem to access the USB. I've tried numerous ways to get it to load on the desktop, but nothing works. Aug 15, 2018 - Have an older Mac or a copy of Windows on a DVD or flash drive? Taken from the available space for your Mac, and that macOS will run more.
I would like to know if it is possible to run OSX (preferably El Capitan) on a USB drive. I am not talking about an installation USB drive to install OSX on my computer, I am talking about installing OSX on a USB drive and running OSX from there. The USB drive acting like a hard drive, a place for OSX to store all it's files, and have the computer's CPU, GPU, RAM, etc... do all the computing.
Basically running OSX whenever I boot with the USB plugged in and run Windows whenever I boot with the USB plugged in. This has been done with Chrome OS before (actually it's the open source Chromium OS) and I would like to know if the same thing could be done for OSX. Of course, speed and storage might be a problem, but to me, it is not. Storage is not a problem and read/write speed can be pretty fast since I use USB 3.0.
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Yes, all Intel-based Macs can boot and run OS X from a USB mass storage device.
![Usb Usb](/uploads/1/2/4/1/124197556/302114341.png)
It doesn't even require any special setup. Macs can boot and run from USB flash drives or HDDs the same way they can boot and run from internal SATA-attached HDDs or SSDs.
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