I can boot my iMac DV from my external firewire drive. I leave it with OS 9 installed on it Ralph
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 07:01 AM, Marc van Gemert wrote: > 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 > -- 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
