That can work, depending on what external HDD you bought. You see, i
have a western digital digital book 500GB HDD extrnal that plugs in
through firewire, but it will not be seen from my Mac at startup,
because I haven't read on the box that it sad Requires Mac OS X
10.3.9 or later odr for
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:12:31 -0500, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote:
BUT as you pointed out, a USB XHD will not start up.
NOW, is there any USB XHD that does NOT have their own power supply and
so can start up?
These external USB HDs
On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:51 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
That can work, depending on what external HDD you bought. You see, i
have a western digital digital book 500GB HDD extrnal that plugs in
through firewire, but it will not be seen from my Mac at startup,
because I haven't read on the box
Will this work with the Summer 2000 iMacs too?
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I used a USB DVD drive to insall Tiger on my summer iMacs by booting from OS9.
All three of my machines didn't have DVD rom.
If I could use a stick that would be great.
Most macs with USB ports can boot from USB, but I used my summer 2001
G3 iMac to boot from USB to install tiger. I also used my PM G4
graphite sawtooth with no problems. Here is a list of computers that
cannot be booted using USB:
iBook Clamshell series (all versions)
BW Power Macintosh G3
iBook
Thank you Mark, for clarifying, that in fact, no hacking is required
to run Leopard. I have used leopard assist on plenty machines and it
works great.
There is a 128GB limit on that machine. You can install a PCI ATA or
SATA card and plug the hard drive into that to bypass the limit, or
the
On Apr 8, 2010, at 10:15 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
look you guys, if you want leopard to run on a G4 processor slower than
867Mhz, you don't need some serious hacking... lol who would hack just to
install leopard.
Just download LeopardAssist. It basically allows leopard to install by
On Apr 8, 11:00 am, Jonas Lopez jonaslo...@yahoo.com wrote:
Ext Seagate 500 Gb USB Drive Issues on 450 MHz G4
1. There is a limit on hds, something like 180 Mb, but does this apply to
External USB drives? Shows on dt as 500 ok.
The limitation, when it exists, is caused by the controller
--- On Thu, 4/8/10, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Ext 500 Gb USB Drive Issues on 450 MHz G4
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 10:18 PM
I have successfully booted OS 9 from a USB flash drive before
On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote:
BUT as you pointed out, a USB XHD will not start up.
NOW, is there any USB XHD that does NOT have their own power supply
and so can start up?
These external USB HDs WILL boot. You must attach the HD prior to
booting and have it fully powered
Ext Seagate 500 Gb USB Drive Issues on 450 MHz G4
1. There is a limit on hds, something like 180 Mb, but does this apply to
External USB drives? Shows on dt as 500 ok.
2. What if partitioned into 5 100Gbs, will we be able to access each one?
3. Can we start up from External USB drive as in OS9
On Apr 8, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Jonas Lopez wrote:
Ext Seagate 500 Gb USB Drive Issues on 450 MHz G4
1. There is a limit on hds, something like 180 Mb, but does this
apply to External USB drives? Shows on dt as 500 ok.
No limit.
2. What if partitioned into 5 100Gbs, will we be able
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jonas Lopez jonaslo...@yahoo.com wrote:
Ext Seagate 500 Gb USB Drive Issues on 450 MHz G4
1. There is a limit on hds, something like 180 Mb, but does this apply to
External USB drives? Shows on dt as 500 ok.
I sincerely doubt, if there even is a limit
look you guys, if you want leopard to run on a G4 processor slower than
867Mhz, you don't need some serious hacking... lol who would hack just to
install leopard.
Just download LeopardAssist. It basically allows leopard to install by
giving your system fake info ma,king it think that it is 933Mhz
I have successfully booted OS 9 from a USB flash drive before, but here is
why i was able to. External USB drives (not flash drives) use their own
power supply, and require an OS to be used or seen. Flash drives work as if
they were internal drives, but slower. I did install OS 9 to USB, it
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