On Jan 8, 2010, at 2:25 AM, Clark Martin wrote:
I always prefer to boot the machine with the DVD drive into FW TDM and mount it on the machine I'm installing into. While OS X is pretty good about installing everything (ironically the one exception I know off hand is the DVD player only gets installed on machines with DVD drives). But you are less likely to run into problems if the machine you want to install onto is the one running the installer.
In OS X it doesn't really matter which is the boot computer since OS X installs a "monolithic" system with ALL extensions for every possible hardware configuration (IF you're using a RETAIL install DVD).
In OS 9 your system would be best since OS 9 will automatically only install the correct extensions for the specific hardware. In OS X Tiger or Leopard that label the installation with the "Model Name" of Macintosh it would also be beneficial so that the installed Mac Name matches the make and model of Mac you're using it on.
If you hold down the option key at boot it should work. It did with me, I booted a G3 iMac from a 2.5" drive in a USB/FW case using the USB interface, it had no external power supply. Anyways I used the option key selection method and it worked okay.
This might work, but it didn't work for me with two different 2.5" USB enclosures UNTIL I attached an external power supply to these enclosures. I think that IF the external drive is spun up with a power supply before it is recognized in the Option boot, THEN you're correct, it should boot normally.
You can click on the curved arrow and it should search for startup disks again.
Yes, but I've never had that work for me in USB booting, even when I was power cycling the USB HD or replugging it. For me, USB booting is a lot like SCSI Voodoo, sometimes it just works perfectly first time, and other times, NOTHING makes any sense.
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