[P1] iBook Hypothetical

[Theodore Alger]

not hypothetical at all.... in fact, I tried this before I left
for Kuwait.... but to give you the benefit of my experience....

I have a graphite 466/SE clamshell:
I installed OS X on an external FireLite 30gb drive.  the problem
I found seemed to stem from the FireLite being bus powered, which
seems to be a problem when the system needs to access the drive...
I had a lot of problems with the system freezing on me.

what has worked out much better has been to install both OS 9
and OS X on the internal drive and put all my applications and
data on the external drive.   YMMV

Ted


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Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 08:41:11 -0800
From: <gecina at earthlink.net>
Subject: [P1] iBook Hypothetical
Message-ID: <Springmail.0994.1041784871.0.33394300 at webmail.pas.earthlink.net>

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?  That way I could use either system at will without buying
an iBook with a larger disk and the two systems would be completely separate..
 (Somewhere in the back of this non-technical mind the word "firmware" keeps
echoing.)  Thanks for your advice