What are my options for booting OSX 10.6 when my DVD drive is broken?
- by Kev
I'm about to completely re-pave my Mac Mini but the DVD drive has died on me which means I can't boot from the installation media.
I know I can boot from a USB stick but I don't have one available, what are my options given the following hardware at hand?
Netgear ReadyNAS Duo NAS (NIC or USB only, no Firewire)
USB HDD (no Firewire)
I've ripped an ISO of the installation disk, can I somehow get the Mini to boot from this image using one of the above?
If I decide not to re-pave but just upgrade, can the Mac be upgraded just using an OSX 10.6 ISO image on its disk?