Looking for a way to install and run OS X on an external hard drive? This can be useful for a couple of different reasons.
Firstly, it allows you to run another copy of OS X without needing any additional Mac computer. Also, since you can run a full copy of OS X on the external drive, it can be used for troubleshooting purposes on other Macs or it can be as a kind of virtual OS X. I’ve already written about how you can, but that takes up space on your Mac. Using an external drive, you can save space on your Mac, though it might be a bit slower if you are using USB 2.0. In this article, I’ll walk you through the requirements and steps to install OS X onto an external hard drive.
Format External Hard Disk The first thing you’re going to need to do is format the external hard drive properly. The file format has to be Mac OS X Journaled and you have to use the GUID partition map.
To do this, open Disk Utility and connect the drive to your Mac. Under External in the left hand menu, click on your external hard drive and then click on the Erase button. Make sure you backup any data before you erase the drive. When you click Erase, a dialog will pop up where you can configure some options. Give your drive a name, choose OS X Extended (Journaled) for Format and GUID Partition Map for Scheme. It should only take a minute or two for the drive to be erased and reformatted.
Now your drive is ready for OS X. Install OS X There are two ways you can install OS X on to your external hard disk: by reinstalling OS X from the OS X Utilities repair screen or by downloading OS X from the App Store and running the installer.
I’ll show you both methods in case one isn’t working for you. The easiest way is to download OS X from the App Store. Once you open the App Store, you’ll see a link on the right for the latest version of OS X (El Capitan as of this writing). Go ahead and click the Download button to start downloading the installer. Note that if you already have that version of OS X installed, you’ll see a popup message appear asking if you still want to continue or not.
Just click Continue. Once it has been downloaded, just double-click the installer, which will be located in the Applications folder. Keep clicking past the license agreement, etc., until you get to the screen that asks you which disk to install OS X on. By default, it is set to MacBook. Click on the Show All Disks button and you’ll see an icon for the different disks and partitions on the Mac.
I named my external hard drive OS X and that shows up in the middle. You can also tell it’s an external hard disk because it uses the icon with the orange hard drive.
Click Continue and then follow the instructions to complete the installation. Note that your computer may restart during the install and you don’t have to do anything. OS X will automatically continue installing onto the external hard drive rather than booting up to your internal version of OS X. At the end of this article, I’ll show you how to boot up to the external hard drive, so skip down if you ended up using the App Store method. Note that by default, the Mac will start booting up directly to the external hard drive until you change it. The second method to install OS X is to restart the Mac and press and hold the COMMAND + R keys.
This will load up OS X Recovery. The OS X Utilities screen will appear and here you want to click on Reinstall OS X. Again, you’ll go through some basic screens, but when you get to the hard disk screen, click on Show All Disks again. Using this method, you’ll have to login using your Apple ID and password so that the entire OS X installer can be downloaded off of Apple’s servers. Whichever method you choose, it will take anywhere from 15 to 30+ minutes to install OS X onto your external hard drive. While OS X is installing, your computer will restart a couple of times. Note that when it finally boots into OS X, that is the version running off your external drive.
To switch back and forth between the internal and external drive, you have to restart your computer and hold down the OPTION key. When you do that, you should see at least four icons. In my case, I have five because I have Windows installed using Boot Camp. Anyway, the grey MacBook and Recovery 10.11.2 icons are for my internal OS X and the orange OS X and Recovery 10.11.3 are for the version installed on my external drive. Use the arrow keys to select which drive to boot from and then simply press Enter.
If you have a newer Mac and a USB drive that supports USB 3.0, everything should run fairly fast. Overall, it’s a fairly straight-forward process and took me less than an hour to get everything working.
If you have any questions, feel free to comment.
BitTorrent is one of the most common method used to download files from the Internet. Although you are able to download files from the public BitTorrent tracker websites such as ThePirateBay without any limitation other than the block imposed by some ISP, there are actually many around that offers better download speed and files that are clean from malwares.
Some private torrent sites are hard to get in because they for a short period and close it back once they’ve reached the members quota. The most important factor to keep your account in good standing at private torrent sites to avoid being banned is to maintain a positive ratio, where you’ll have to at least upload the same amount that you’ve downloaded. Although it is fair to seed, but unfortunately not everyone can maintain a good ratio probably due to slow upload speed, couldn’t afford a seedbox, or to turn on their computer 24/7 just to seed what they’ve downloaded. The way BitTorrent works, it allows many ways to cheat the torrent ratio on trackers and we’ll cover two tools to do that. There are many ratio cheating tool such as RatioMaster by NRPG (last updated 4 years), RatioMaster by moofdev (last updated 2 years), GreedyTorrent (last updated 5 years ago) and many more that hasn’t been updated for a long time which either no longer work or they can be easily caught by the tracker administrator. Basically there are 3 different tools to cheat the ratio which is by either by using a modified torrent client which we don’t really recommend, emulation software that don’t really download nor upload files except sending fake data to manipulate the ratio, or a plugin that only increases the the reported uploaded data.
One of the current and up to date emulation tool that works today is mRatio. MRatio is a free and easy to use BitTorrent emulator where it simply loads a torrent file and then simulate the downloading and uploading plus sending the data to the tracker ignoring the amount of seeders and leechers. No files will be downloaded nor uploaded and it does not use up any of your bandwidth.
As a test, we signed up a private BitTorrent tracker website and used mRatio to increase our upload ratio. After running it for a few minutes, stopping the download and refreshing the profile page shows a positive ratio even though I did not really upload any physical file to anyone. Using mRatio is easy. Download, extract the RAR file and run mRatio.exe file. Click the Add Torrent Wizard button located at the left pane of the program and follow the wizard instructions which is loading the torrent file that you want to cheat, selecting the client emulation, setting the maximum upload and download speed, proxy, and start cheating.
Although it is easy to cheat the tracker and increase your upload ratio using mRatio, it can however be easily detected as well. MRatio continues to send reports to the tracker and what the tracker administrator can do to detect the cheating is by stop giving real peers to the cheater for a few hours. When they still receive reports after stop sending peers to the cheater, it is a definite sign that this user is using an emulator to increase their upload ratio. Another thing to take note is this public version of mRatio does not come with the latest client files. Some tracker sites allow the member to only use the latest version of selected BitTorrent client. Using an older build or an unapproved version would cause the account to be banned.
You can however request for the previous build in the mRatio forum. Another safer method to increase upload and decrease download ratio is by using Torrent Ratio Keeper. The method used by this tool is actually very similar to GreedyTorrent which wasn’t updated after the release of first beta in 2007.
Basically what it does is it acts as a BitTorrent client plugin and modify the upload or download transfer rate where the BitTorrent client will then report the data to the tracker. If the admin suspects the user of cheating and stop sending peers, the plugin would also cease to work and there is no sign of cheating. Torrent Ratio Keeper is very easy to use and works right out of the box. All you need to do is install the program and run it which will automatically detect and add active trackers to the list. There is no need to configure your BitTorrent client to use the local host proxy and etc. The only requirement to increase the upload ratio with Torrent Ratio Keeper is you need to seed the file. For example, if you uploaded 2GB of files, Torrent Ratio Keeper will report an additional 75% (depending on the version) of the total amount uploaded, making it 3.5GB.
This way, you will need to only seed 25% in order to achieve a balanced 1:1 ratio, saving both time and bandwidth. So if you downloaded a file from BitTorrent and there are no leechers for the file, there won’t be much hope in increasing your upload ratio with that file. Unfortunately Torrent Ratio Keeper is a shareware and it comes in 3 versions. Each version has a different upload limit, statistics and expert options. If you’re serious about keeping your account in good standing for long term and not willing to seed, Torrent Ratio Keeper is definitely a good investment. I’m on a rural wireless connection and the connectivity is “iffy” to be optimistic about it. Uploads are especially troublesome as setting the bandwidth to any more than 15kB/s will seriously degrade the download rate.
Furthermore, if a stream drops to zero on the download, it may shutdown until traffic subsides on the tower I am connected to. Makes it hard to be a good torrent citizen. That said, I connect my laptop and leave it run 7×24 when I can.
If a seeding torrent has no takers in 72 hrs then I take it off the list. If there are steady downloads then I let it run for at least a week or until it hits 3:1. Overall this means I hit about a total avg of 0.15. Pretty low but I try. I have not noticed any issues with my ratio so I am not tempted yet to cheat. Not morally opposed though. Thanks for the interesting information.
What is the current situation with unRAID and torrents? Are torrent clients easily installed? Which ones are available? I checked the wiki and searched but all relevant threads were from 2009/2010. Transmission works great, if you combine it with Remote Torrent Adder in Chrome it is a very nice experience. I add torrents manually ot let sabnzbd add them to transmission.
I then leave the downloads in a temporary directory to make sure they are seeded also, after a day or so (or whenever I need them) I move them to the appropriate directories to have sickbeard and/or couchpotato process them. Transmission works great but now without a simple flexget plugin or package in renders it almost useless if you use private trackers that want you to maintain a decent ratio Can you explain what you mean? I use public and private trackers and have no issues with transmission beiing Useless. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD I think his point was that on some of the big private trackers torrents are so well seeded, and people have such high upload speeds these days, that it's hard to get much uploading done to keep a good ratio. FlexGet will download stuff automatically so you can seed as soon as a torrent is added and help keep up your ratio. This may not be the case at all private trackers since you don't have a problem.
At my UK TV shows private tracker I don't have a problem with this either. Transmission works great but now without a simple flexget plugin or package in renders it almost useless if you use private trackers that want you to maintain a decent ratio Can you explain what you mean?
I use public and private trackers and have no issues with transmission beiing Useless. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD I think his point was that on some of the big private trackers torrents are so well seeded, and people have such high upload speeds these days, that it's hard to get much uploading done to keep a good ratio. FlexGet will download stuff automatically so you can seed as soon as a torrent is added and help keep up your ratio. This may not be the case at all private trackers since you don't have a problem. At my UK TV shows private tracker I don't have a problem with this either. Yep, that's what I meant. Transmission works great but now without a simple flexget plugin or package in renders it almost useless if you use private trackers that want you to maintain a decent ratio Can you explain what you mean?
I use public and private trackers and have no issues with transmission beiing Useless. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD I think his point was that on some of the big private trackers torrents are so well seeded, and people have such high upload speeds these days, that it's hard to get much uploading done to keep a good ratio. FlexGet will download stuff automatically so you can seed as soon as a torrent is added and help keep up your ratio.
This may not be the case at all private trackers since you don't have a problem. At my UK TV shows private tracker I don't have a problem with this either. Never had this issue, public or private trackers, with the exception of 'Scam school's torrent feed, and that's simply because nobody downloads it other than the first bunch of people, so I have nobody to seed to. Why on earth would you download something with the only intent is to seed? I do seed, I'd just never download just to seed C.
If that's your point of view, why not just create a bunch of random 1GB files and upload them to the site, then let everyone else using 'flexget' download them and get a super high ratio? Ratio master and I have never had an issue, nor have I ever been caught. Although, granted I've only ever used it twice (Bullshit site apparently reset my torrent stats from 1.5TB down & 3TB up down to 0 down 0 up (Only effected me, admin said 'tough'), so I left ratio master on for a couple of days to regain my rightful stats). Each to their own I guess, however, I feel it seems pointless. I'll read up on their FAQ though, maybe I'll change my mind.
Apparently it's pretty much just like sickbeard/couchpotato/rss reader, my mistake, I thought it just downloaded items the second they were posted in order to seed. I'm an idiot. Transmission works great but now without a simple flexget plugin or package in renders it almost useless if you use private trackers that want you to maintain a decent ratio Can you explain what you mean? I use public and private trackers and have no issues with transmission beiing Useless. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD I think his point was that on some of the big private trackers torrents are so well seeded, and people have such high upload speeds these days, that it's hard to get much uploading done to keep a good ratio. FlexGet will download stuff automatically so you can seed as soon as a torrent is added and help keep up your ratio. This may not be the case at all private trackers since you don't have a problem.
At my UK TV shows private tracker I don't have a problem with this either. Yep, that's what I meant. But that is not a problem when you use sickbeard/transmission or something similar. The torrent will start as soon as the file is available and seed immediately after. I have setup transmission to download torrents and place them in a temporary folder that is not post-processed by sabnzbd, my upload credits are growing fast.
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Once a day I move them to the postprocessing folder of sabnzbd manually (could create a cron for that also). Flexget is an RSS feed downloader with plenty smarts allowing you to customize what, when, where and how to download your selected content. Think command / script based SickBeard. Sabnzbd is like transmission, the tool actually pulling the stuff down.
UTorrent has a built in rss downloader as do many other torrent clients but the Transmission boys have it in their minds their product will never have one so we're forced to use flexget to automate downloads. Without automated downloads, keep a healthy ratio up is tough on man prove trackers. Free ultrasound reporting software download. Flexget is an RSS feed downloader with plenty smarts allowing you to customize what, when, where and how to download your selected content.
Think command / script based SickBeard. Sabnzbd is like transmission, the tool actually pulling the stuff down. UTorrent has a built in rss downloader as do many other torrent clients but the Transmission boys have it in their minds their product will never have one so we're forced to use flexget to automate downloads. Without automated downloads, keep a healthy ratio up is tough on man prove trackers. Wasn't fully awake I guess, have changed my post to be correct.
Naruto shippuden revolution crack only. Today we've released. This version runs on any PC with Java 1.5/1.6/1.7 installed. After the first time launching the program, you will see this screen: Look at the right bottom corner. You will see active port.
You can change it or leave it as is. Now you should launch your torrent client and enter 'localhost:3012' as HTTP proxy. Example for uTorrent (Click Options Preferences Connection): Example for Vuze (Click Tools Options Connection): Example for Deluge (Click Options Preferences Connection): Example for Transmission (Click Edit Preferences Proxy): If you run Transmission as daemon or console application, settings.json should have settings like: 'proxy': 'localhost', 'proxy-auth-enabled': false, 'proxy-auth-password': ', 'proxy-auth-username': ', 'proxy-enabled': true, 'proxy-port': 3012, 'proxy-type': 0, You can start your downloading or seeding. Wait a minute, and the program will automatically add the trackers to the list.
You can change upload boost for each of them to increase your torrent ratio. You'll see the values in the table update, within 1-2 hours. This depends on the tracker update time (you can find it in your torrent client). The first value is the real uploaded traffic, and the second next is what the program sent to the tracker.
You can also run TRK from command line on your server, router or seedbox. Code: Usage: java -jar TorrentRatioKeeperMonster.jar -ui:0 OPTIONS -ui:1 0 (launch TRK with gui or without. Default - 1) -active:1 0 (Activate TRK for the new tracker (Default Settings).
Default value is 1) -upinc:0.1000 (Increase Uploaded Traffic for the new tracker (Default Settings). Default value is 75(%)) -downdec:0.100 (Decrease Downloaded Traffic for the new tracker (Default Settings). Default value is 0, turned off) -seeder:1 0 (Turn on Seeder mode for the new tracker (Default Settings). Default value is 0) -noup:1 0 (Emulate Upload Problems for the new tracker (Default Settings). Default value is 0) -blocktracker:1 0 (Block Tracker Communications for the new tracker (Default Settings).
Default value is 0) - Add x-y% of downloaded to uploaded - -adddowntoup:1 0 (Add x-y% of downloaded to uploaded for the new tracker (Default Settings). Default value is 0) -adddowntoupx:0.100000 (X of adddowntoup for the new tracker (Default Settings). Default value is 25) -adddowntoupy:0.100000 (Y of adddowntoup for the new tracker (Default Settings). Default value is 33) - Limit torrent fake upload speed - -limtorrent:1 0 (Make sure that your fake upload increase speed for single.torrent doesn't exceed X-Y kb/s for the new tracker (Default Settings). Default value is 0, turned off) -limtorrentx:0.100000 (X kb/s of limtorrent for the new tracker (Default Settings).
Default value is 100) -limtorrenty:0.100000 (Y kb/s of limtorrent for the new tracker (Default Settings). Default value is 150 - Settings - -port:1.65535 (TRK listens this port. You need to setup your torrent client to use the port as HTTP proxy. Default port is 3012.
Example: localhost:3012) -lc: (The license key activates TRK on your PC. It's enough to launch TRK with this parameter one time.) -help (display this help and exit) Example: java -jar TorrentRatioKeeperMonster.jar -ui:0 -seeder:1 -noup:0 -upinc:112 -downdec:0. Torrent Ratio Keeper should work fine with any.torrent (file or files). If you have any problems, please send.torrent file to us to check it. Downloading speed depends on seeds/peers count. Torrent client can spend first few minutes on checking peers speed.
Please provide more information about your torrent client and the tracker if possible. We will check it. It's not recommended to turn on/off TRK while torrent client works. It will reduce the upload boost and it will look 'strange' from the tracker's perspective. It's possible that root and user have different skins. Thank you for the mini-FAQ.
. Download macOS from the App Store, using a you're downloading. To for use with a bootable installer, be sure to download from a Mac that is currently using High Sierra, Sierra 10.12.5 or later, or El Capitan 10.11.6.
Enterprise administrators, please download from Apple, not a locally hosted software-update server. When the macOS installer opens, quit it without continuing installation. Find the installer in your Applications folder as a single ”Install” file, such as Install macOS High Sierra. After, connect the USB flash drive or other volume that will be used as the bootable installer. Make sure that it has at least 12GB of available storage.
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Open Terminal, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. Type or paste one of the following commands in Terminal. These assume that the installer is still in your Applications folder, and MyVolume is the name of the USB flash drive or other volume that will be used as the bootable installer. If it has a different name, replace MyVolume accordingly.
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After, follow these steps to use it. Connect the bootable installer to a compatible Mac.
Use Startup Manager or Startup Disk preferences to select the bootable installer as the startup disk, then start up from it. Your Mac will start up to. Cummins insite.
Learn about, including what to do. Choose your language, if prompted.
A bootable installer doesn't download macOS from the Internet, but it does require the Internet to get information specific to your Mac model, such as firmware updates. If you need to connect to a Wi-Fi network, use the Wi-Fi menu in the menu bar.
Select Install macOS (or Install OS X) from the Utilities window, then click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions.
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