On Mar 21, 2010, at 10:07 AM, John Carmonne wrote:
On Mar 21, 2010, at 5:54 AM, peter wrote:
I just ran into this with a USB flash drive, I cloned tiger retail
DVD, and used Pacafist to strip out the hardware checks, then used it
to install tiger (very, very slowly) on a tangerine clamshell (no
firewire) I had picked up for $10. I then tried to use the same
method
on my backup Lombard (just for fun) and the drive was not recognized
as bootable no matter what I did.
That,s exactly what happened here. Shame. such a neat way to install
without a DVD drive.
I'm not sure which, but aren't most G4s not USB bootable? FW, yes.
According to Mactracker specs, maybe because G4s USB are only 12 Mbs,
and starting with G5s, they are 480 Mbs, just over FWs 400.
Just guessing.
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