Re: Is it possible to have an External USB boot drive?

2019-07-01 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Brian, It is difficult to say what is going on without eyeballing your set-up and how your network is setup. One thought does come to mind – are you sure that any of your machines are actually connecting to the internet through the Huawei? Ie do your iMac and MacMini stay connected

Re: Is it possible to have an External USB boot drive?

2019-07-01 Thread Brian W Scott
Hi, I’ve discovered a new wrinkle. When I tried the Huawei dongle in both the iMac and the Mac Mini both were currently connected to the internet through my home modem/router and I just went to the Network preferences and selected the Huawei when it showed up and tested the internet and it

Re: Is it possible to have an External USB boot drive?

2019-07-01 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Brian, Whoa – I think maybe you need to stop and think about this. Whilst I could continue the discussion about getting a USB drive bootable – and the way you seem to be going about it – maybe you need to consider another approach: You have confirmed that your device is a Huawei

Re: Is it possible to have an External USB boot drive?

2019-07-01 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ronni, Hi Brian, I checked out that link but the Huawei search page did not seem to actually be showing any downloadable El Capitan drivers. Clicking the “Support” tab did show one downloadable zip file but it seems to be for Sierra rather than El Capitan: The driver tool of Device(for