[X4U] External Boot HD ?

[John Baltutis]

On 10/23/05, Vern Andrews <pantheribook at pacbell.net> wrote:

> I just purchased a Maxtor MaXLine III 7L300RO 300GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra
> ATA133 Hard Drive, and a Rosewill RX30-U2FA External Enclosure
> USB/FireWire. Still waiting for the shipment to arrive.
>
> The hard drive will be connected to my G4 iBook, presently running OS X
> 10.3.9. I would also like to install Tiger on the external hard drive,
> and be able to boot from the external hard drive, with either OS X 10.3
> or Tiger. Will that be a problem? Thanks.

No, if the the Rosewill enclosure is bootable. If it is, then it's a simple
matter if you properly format the enclosed drive.