At 12:21 AM -0600 11/3/08, Kris Tilford wrote:
>On Nov 2, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Steve R wrote:
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>> Can an iMac G3 boot from USB?
>
>The colored iMacs and iBooks can boot USB. It's slow, since it's USB
>1.0. Why would you want to do this? Normally, it'd be for emergency
>use only, such as to clone
On Nov 2, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Steve R wrote:
> Can an iMac G3 boot from USB?
The colored iMacs and iBooks can boot USB. It's slow, since it's USB
1.0. Why would you want to do this? Normally, it'd be for emergency
use only, such as to clone an internal HD to a Firewire HD in a
completely sa
I've found a few references on the net that suggest booting into Open
Firmware and changing the boot routine manually via command line, but
I was hoping for an easier solution if one existed.
Steve
On Nov 2, 11:08 pm, Steve R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 10:45 PM -0600 11/2/08, Kris Tilford p
At 10:45 PM -0600 11/2/08, Kris Tilford posted:
> On Nov 2, 2008, at 10:38 PM, joplinfan wrote:
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>> Any tips on how I can get the iMac G3 to recognize it as a bootable
>> drive?
Can an iMac G3 boot from USB?
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On Nov 2, 2008, at 10:38 PM, joplinfan wrote:
> Any tips on how I can get the iMac G3 to recognize it as a bootable
> drive?
Also, if you reformat to HFS+, be certain the partition scheme is
"Apple Partition Scheme" for your 2001 iMac. Newer versions of Disk
Utility default to the GUID parti
On Nov 2, 2008, at 10:38 PM, joplinfan wrote:
> Any tips on how I can get the iMac G3 to recognize it as a bootable
> drive?
Did you reformat it as Apple HFS+?
Drives are MS FAT32 to begin with.
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Hi all,
Just bought a Sandisk 8 GB USB pen drive and would like to use it as a
bootable drive. I transferred a boot image to it, but the iMac G3 2001
won't recognize it as a startup disk. It does show up in Disk Utility
(OS X 10.4.11) as a valid USB drive.
Any tips on how I can get the iMac G3 t
