On 14 Mar 2005, at 15:31, Douglas McCabe wrote:
So, my question is - how can I make the external drive bootable?
A normal copy will miss many of OS X's invisible files. You need to clone your hard drive onto the external one. Under 10.3 you can do this with Disk Utility. If you're using 10.2 try something like Carbon Copy Cloner:
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
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