At 12:21 AM -0600 11/3/08, Kris Tilford wrote: >On Nov 2, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Steve R wrote: > >> Can an iMac G3 boot from USB? > >The colored iMacs and iBooks can boot USB. It's slow, since it's USB >1.0. Why would you want to do this? Normally, it'd be for emergency >use only, such as to clone an internal HD to a Firewire HD in a >completely safe way. To boot USB the easiest way is to use the Option >boot and select the bootable USB device from the selection. The other >way is to use Startup Disk from OS 9.2. Startup Disk in all versions >of OS X WILL NOT boot a colored iMac or iBook. >
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