Yes! I do it all the time. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your a bootable copy of your internal drive. John --- On Mon, 11/17/08, jonny <g4 at salemoregon.com> wrote: > From: jonny <g4 at salemoregon.com> > Subject: [G4] FireWire 800 Hard Drive for Boot Drive? > To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> > Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 10:21 AM > Hello Good Folks. > > I want to set up an external firewire hard drive with OSX > 4.0 > > Question: Can I boot OSX from an external FireWire drive? > > I have a 1.25 mhz MMD with 800 FW card. > > Thanks. > > jonny > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4