Jeff, Thanks for taking the time to test out my inquiry and for responding with your results. Another poster made a similar inquiry and got several responses which she copies to a word document and subsequently sent that to me via email. The upshot seems to be it will work with firewire drives but usb is questionable. Betty > on 1/9/03 8:33 AM, Jeff Newman at newman5608 at earthlink.net wrote: Betty, > > Since no one's responded... I did this, but with Firewire to an > icebook. It worked just fine for the short while I played with it. > USB is probably a different story altogether. So yes it will run (a > partial answer, at least), but whether comfortably I don't know. > > Jeff > >> happy new year everyone, >> >> I would like opinions on the feasibility of installing jaguar on an 30gb >> external usb/firewire hard drive which is connected to my clamshell iBook >> (usb only). Will this work? i.e. can I boot up from the external hard drive >> and comfortably run jaguar? or would it just be too slow? >> >> thanks, >> >> betty