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

2019-06-30 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Brian, Did you download the updated drivers for EI Capitan? Huawei E8372 Drivers for El Capitan https://consumer.huawei.com/en/search/?keyword=Huawei%20E8372%20Drivers%20for%20El%20Capitan Kind Regards, Ronni  Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 1 Jul 2019, at 10:03 am, Brian W

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

2019-06-30 Thread Brian W Scott
Hi Neil, Thank you for your assistance. I’m beginning to think the reason I’m having trouble getting a USB drive bootable could be the way I’m going about it using the Restore option from the MacBook Air. What if the MacBook Air (2011) to old to handle the Restore system. What I should do

WAMUG User Group Reminder: This Tuesday, 2 July 2019

2019-06-30 Thread WAMUG Annoucement
G’day all WAMUGERS. It’s exactly half way through the year and out half-way monthly User Group of the year is just a couple of days away being this Tuesday, the 2nd of July, 2019. This month we are looking Airdrop between a Mac, an iPad and an iPhone; depending of on the age of the device and

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

2019-06-30 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Brian, First off a clone of your Mac mini is not the way to go - the hardware of the Mac Mini and the MacBook Air are different. The OSX installation process installs what is needed for the specific computer it is installed on. Personally, I would not dive into re-installing El Capitan on

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

2019-06-30 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Brian, OK, it definitely helps to know what your problem is! We all tend to have our different ways to go about things like this and I'm not familiar with your USB mobile modem. I have used them when travelling overseas when some places I have stayed that offered internet access used

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

2019-06-30 Thread Brian W Scott
Well after re-formating the USB disk to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) I had another go but it didn’t work. Once again after several minutes downloading etc it reckoned it had hundreds of years remaining but after a couple of minutes went to 0 seconds and eventually rebooted and then said the