Gerald Uhlan wrote: > I'm no expert, but I remember reading somewhere that the iMac could not be > booted from an external drive; only the internal CD-ROM or the internal Hard > Drive at least as far as USB goes. Don't know if they fixed this problem or > not when they added Firewire to later iMacs.
That's what I suspect to to be the problem too. Another thing you can do is make a partition of 700 MB and use Apple Software Restore to 'restore' the OS X Install CD to that partition and then select that partition as the Startup Disk and install it from there. That's what I am going to do on a friend's iMac when he's going to buy a very large IDE HD next month; I installed a CDRW a while ago which isn't bootable so I gues that's the only way to do it. That means I first have to partition his new HD in my B&W G3 and install a small OS 9.2.2 or so that the iMac can boot from the HD first. Then I can use ASR to restore the OS X CD. -- Marc van Gemert | MacSonar Support Team | Webmaster MacSonar http://www.MacSonar.net | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
