<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 5 Oct, 07, at 6:02 PM, The Sargents wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Palatino" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Palatino">Does anybody know how to boot into an external Firewire drive- either OS 9 or OS X?)</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>In OS-9, I have used the keyboard combination of Command-Option-Shift-Delete all held down during the boot procedure. This forces the machine to boot to any valid system folder that is connected to the computer, CD disk, USB or FireWire (as long as the machine is capable of booting to that particular type of case) external hard drive or CD/DVD case instead of booting to the internal hard drive.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In OS-X, I hold down the Option key during the boot procedure. This brings up every valid system folder that is attached and in a compatible case. Then click on the system folder you want to use and press the forward button to finish the boot procedure in that OS.</DIV></BODY></HTML>