[X4U] Tiger Apr 29th

Kunga Kunga at FutureMedia.org
Thu Apr 14 08:52:13 PDT 2005


I believe it will work either way. Does not have to be a built in drive.

k

On Apr 14, 2005, at 6:55 AM, Michael Winter wrote:

> I was hoping the DVD might have a method for creating a set of install 
> CD's. The internal DVD-ROM drive on one of our old iMacs is dead, but 
> it does have an external (Firewire) superdrive.
>
> Hmmm. I'm assuming it needs to be a built-in drive because you have to 
> boot from the installation disk. Now I'm wondering how I'm going to 
> work it on this iMac because I don't know if I can boot from the 
> external drive regardless of format (CD vs. DVD). Guess I'll have to 
> do a little experimenting tonight.
>
> Worst case, I guess I try hooking it up to the Quicksilver in Target 
> Disk Mode and try it that way.
>
> -Mike



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