So true, my mistake. Could've sworn I booted off a USB drive with Mac OS 9.
Matt On Nov 27, 2007, at 6:13 PM, b3studios wrote: > it was my impression that PPC machines won't boot from USB drive. > I think there is a way to get it to work, but it involves quite a > bit of hackery and such. > > r > > On Nov 27, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Matt Frost wrote: > >> It should, any G4 can do a external hard drive boot. Is the >> operating system installed correctly on the external hard drive? >> If you try to copy and paste system folders from your internal to >> your external, you won't be able to boot. There are invisible >> folders associated with the OS that cannot be selected by Finder >> alone. >> >> Matt >> >> >> On Nov 27, 2007, at 5:35 PM, cgreen1 wrote: >> >>> Is that the reason why my G4 PowerBook won't do so? --It's not >>> Intel or >>> dual core...ccg >>> >>> >>> On 11/27/07 4:05 PM, "b3studios" <b3studios at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Intel Macs can boot from USB. >>>> >>>> I still prefer firewire, but they will boot from USB. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Nov 27, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Bill Rising wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Nov 27, 2007, at 14:21 , Glenn Hoehler wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Can I use an USB external drive as a startup drive with OX10.4 or >>>>>> 10.5 with an Intel Core 2 computer? >>>>>> Can this be done with a firewire external drive? >>>>>> I think this worked with firewire on a power mac. >>>>> >>>>> I don't know if the interface makes a difference, but I've had no >>>>> troubles using external Firewire drives (both 400 and 800) as >>>>> startup drives on both ppc and core 2 duo Macs. >>>>> >>>>> Bill_______________________________________________ >>>>> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >>>>> be November 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >>>>> Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >>>>> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/ >>>>> macgroup >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >>>> be November 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >>>> Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >>>> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/ >>>> macgroup >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >>> be November 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >>> Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >>> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/ >>> macgroup >>> >> >> www.MattFro.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >> be November 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >> Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be November 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup www.MattFro.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20071127/b9dfd8cf/attachment.html
