[CUBE] [OT] booting from external hard drive.

[Allan Hise]

Firewire target disk mode (T key) only works to make a mac into an
external firewire drive.

What you are doing should be possible by simply choosing the external
drive in the startup control panel in OS 9 and rebooting.

Or, you may be able to hold option when powering up, it should see all
bootable systems (assuming they are on different partitions).

Allan

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, A Marshall wrote:

>
> hi
>
> i'm doing a live event in a weeks time and instead of taking my cube & screen along, a friend said he would lend me his iBook (500).  As he is running OS9 on his machine, and to save transfering all the files i need onto his computer, i thought i would take my drive out the cube, pop it into a firewire enclosure and boot up off it using the iBook, will this work ok? and if so, is there a keyboard shortcut to use (i seem to remember something about holding down the F key)
>
> thanks for any help
> alan.
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