Calla2 wrote:
I put the new 80 GB drive in an external USB enclosure.
in my knowledge you cannot boot from an external hard drive ... and I'm
surprised you can install and boot OS9!
Angelo
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Hmmm.
After further Googling , it seems some model PPC Macs can boot from
USB after all.
This article here...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1469972tstart=30
has some interesting info and may give you a few pointers.
Stewie
On Sep 8, 5:15 am, Calla2 karr...@gmail.com wrote:
Kris,
Yes, I checked for Apple partition mapping before partitioning and it
was the default option. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Karren
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Stewie,
I wish I had a firewire enclosure primarily because it's faster
(although I did wonder if the usb enclosure is part of the problem, I
was less concerned once I was able to install and boot in OS 9.2). The
primary reason that I did not install the 80 GB drive in the Pismo
before
On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:16 PM, Calla2 wrote:
Yes, I checked for Apple partition mapping before partitioning and it
was the default option. Thanks for the suggestion though.
If it's in an external drive, and it's partitioned Apple Partition
Map, then you should be able to install 10.4 onto any
