Possible to run OS X Tiger from a thumb drive?

Mac

I have a 2014 MBA running Yosemite. (and an external SuperDrive)

I have plenty of thumb drives available in various storage capacities from 2 to 32 gb (including this because it seems a certain amount is required - but I'm not sure how much.)

I have the two OS X 10.4.9 Tiger installation disks.

Basically, I'd love to be able to install Tiger onto a thumb drive, and boot my MBA from it. Using the storage capacity of the thumb drive as its own storage medium.

My question is this, is this even possible, if so, how? I've done so much googling, I'm just coming up with the same unhelpful youtube videos, and unhelpful webpages. I'm hoping you guys can help out. Thanks in advance.

Posted Dec 6, 2015, 2:28 AM UTC

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john_eric•10 yr. ago

Here's a discussion on how to do it...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1463460?start=0&tstart=0

However, 10.4.9 came out in 2009, I doubt it has all the drivers necessary to boot a 2014 MBA.

JustDoctorOP•10 yr. ago

Sheiße. Forgot about drivers. But thanks anyways. I'll give it a go, and see what happens. I'll update you.

TronLightyearApple Helper•10 yr. ago

No due to the lack of drivers. Firmware for EFI would make it impossible

dmsp8baller•10 yr. ago

Could try running it in a Virtual machine. Oracle virtual box, Parallels, or VMware Fusion. This way you could try to avoid drivers, otherwise you could install it onto flash drive but trying to boot to an older Operating System that doesn't have a build for that machine may give a prohibitory symbol.

...IF it does run, I would find it neat and would like to see a screenshot