[P1] iBook Hypothetical

[Jack Rodgers]

On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 11:41  AM, <gecina at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Another idea has crossed my mind:  This is a wildly hypothetical 
> question —
> With the clamshell iBook, could I plug in a firewire exterior hard 
> disk and
> install OSX on it?

Not so wild nor hypothetical. You can boot OS X or OS 9 from an 
external firewire disk with the proviso that the software is properly 
installed and that your Mac will boot from OS 9. The latter if was 
added because it is said that future Macs will not boot from OS 9. 
We'll see what happens.

OS X does generate a lot of secondary files that weren't necessary in 
OS 9. I don't know if UNIX also does this or this is just Apple trying 
to fudge an interface on top of UNIX. OS 9 does not do as good job of 
hiding them as OS X does. Ignore them. Don't delete them.

I have installed just OS X on my drive. I have stopped using OS 9 and 
all my software is OS X native. If you don't have a lot of legacy OS 9 
software that you must use, you can ignore OS 9 and just use OS X.

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Jack Rodgers

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