On Dec 20, 2004, at 5:59 AM, Wayne Clodfelter wrote:
Contrary to what some might tell you, G3s can boot from Firewire drives...via XPostFacto. XPF will also permit beige G3s to work around the 8G partition limit for OS X installations. I ran a beige G3 for a long time with my main 10.2.x system on a Firewire drive. Worked like a charm.
That uses the built-in drive as a 'helper' to get the boot process going, IIRC, which means that if that drive is hosed, no booting from firewire.
Another way to get around the 8G barrier is to put in a ATA controller card. My Beige is running off of a SIIG card; the boot disk is an unpartitioned 120 G drive.
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