I believe it will work either way. Does not have to be a built in drive. k On Apr 14, 2005, at 6:55 AM, Michael Winter wrote: > I was hoping the DVD might have a method for creating a set of install > CD's. The internal DVD-ROM drive on one of our old iMacs is dead, but > it does have an external (Firewire) superdrive. > > Hmmm. I'm assuming it needs to be a built-in drive because you have to > boot from the installation disk. Now I'm wondering how I'm going to > work it on this iMac because I don't know if I can boot from the > external drive regardless of format (CD vs. DVD). Guess I'll have to > do a little experimenting tonight. > > Worst case, I guess I try hooking it up to the Quicksilver in Target > Disk Mode and try it that way. > > -Mike