No; G3's, G4's and G5's won't boot to USB devices without some very extensive
work on the external device. I've tried before to do this with an external USB
HD, without any luck. Too bad they never made FireWire thumb drives... You
can't boot from a disk image, because in order to open that image, the computer
has to be booted into an OS already.
Your best bet is an external FireWire HD.
-Elliott Price
Quoit - Macintosh Computer Services
hobbittech.com/quoit
On Feb 15, 2010, at 12:16 AM, williamd wrote:
> Just wondering whether my imac G4 can boot to an os or iso on a usb flash
> drive? Is there a way to force it to do so, instead of booting to the hd? Or,
> if the hd is not formatted and no cd is present, will it just see and boot to
> the usb flash drive?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -bill
>
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