[X-Newbies] New external hard drive

[Randy B.Singer]

Robert Green said:

>Thanks John. I looked at the article and it appears that I could boot  
>from it but the article doesn't give some details. The article says  
>that a USB drive can be used to start my G4  from and can hold a  
>system folder to do this but it doesn't give details on how to  
>install the folder and then start from it. I want to start form my  
>Western Digital 250 gb usb drive in order to defragement the main  
>drive using idefrag. Any suggestions?


If you want your external USB drive to be a startup drive for your G4, 
and assuming that your G4 is one of the models that will boot from a USB 
drive and which can boot into OS 9, and that you have a USB drive that 
has the specs to do it, you will have to install OS 9 on the drive, and 
the boot driver for OS 9.  

Installing OS 9 is easy.  You install it as you would for any Mac or 
other drive.

Installing the OS 9 boot driver requires that you reformat (and 
completely erase) the drive with Disk Utility.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75275

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Randy B. Singer

Co-Author of:
The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)

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