[X-Newbies] New external hard drive

[Robert Green]

Thanks John. I looked at the article and it appears that I could boot  
from it but the article doesn't give some details. The article says  
that a USB drive can be used to start my G4  from and can hold a  
system folder to do this but it doesn't give details on how to  
install the folder and then start from it. I want to start form my  
Western Digital 250 gb usb drive in order to defragement the main  
drive using idefrag. Any suggestions?

On 30-Dec-06, at 2:04 PM, Randy B.Singer wrote:

> John McGibney said:
>
>> 1. Macs aren't bootable from USB drives.
>
>
> That is a common misconception.  Several Macs were able to boot  
> from USB
> drives under OS 9.
>
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58430
>
> And all Intel-based Macs can boot from USB drives.
>
> http://rentzsch.com/tidbits/intelbasedMacBootIncompatibility
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> Randy B. Singer
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