What kind of Mac? Intel Macs support booting from USB drives, however the Gx Macs don't; at least not without some work to make the firmware see the device as bootable (I tried it once, but it was way too complicated for me :P) I don't think it involved sheep shaver, and I'm not sure what that has to do with it, since a G4 is already a PPC Mac.
-Elliott Price Quoit - Macintosh Computer Services hobbittech.com/quoit On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:21 AM, Robert Pangrazio wrote: > I've done it. I wouldn't recommend it though. Its very very slow. I needed to > install OS 9 on my Mac. I didn't have a CD that would work so I used > SheepShaver(a PowerMac emulator) to install on the USB stick. Then held down > option, if I remember correctly, and it showed up in the boot selector. If > you are trying to do a CD you need to lock the volume. The mac os installer > at least uses that to check whether its on the original cd or not. > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Elliott Price <callmemrp...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group > for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist