Re: Boot a G3 from USB pen drive?
On Nov 2, 2008, at 10:38 PM, joplinfan wrote: Any tips on how I can get the iMac G3 to recognize it as a bootable drive? Did you reformat it as Apple HFS+? Drives are MS FAT32 to begin with. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Boot a G3 from USB pen drive?
At 10:45 PM -0600 11/2/08, Kris Tilford posted: On Nov 2, 2008, at 10:38 PM, joplinfan wrote: Any tips on how I can get the iMac G3 to recognize it as a bootable drive? Can an iMac G3 boot from USB? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Boot a G3 from USB pen drive?
I've found a few references on the net that suggest booting into Open Firmware and changing the boot routine manually via command line, but I was hoping for an easier solution if one existed. Steve On Nov 2, 11:08 pm, Steve R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:45 PM -0600 11/2/08, Kris Tilford posted: On Nov 2, 2008, at 10:38 PM, joplinfan wrote: Any tips on how I can get the iMac G3 to recognize it as a bootable drive? Can an iMac G3 boot from USB? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Boot a G3 from USB pen drive?
On Nov 2, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Steve R wrote: Can an iMac G3 boot from USB? The colored iMacs and iBooks can boot USB. It's slow, since it's USB 1.0. Why would you want to do this? Normally, it'd be for emergency use only, such as to clone an internal HD to a Firewire HD in a completely safe way. To boot USB the easiest way is to use the Option boot and select the bootable USB device from the selection. The other way is to use Startup Disk from OS 9.2. Startup Disk in all versions of OS X WILL NOT boot a colored iMac or iBook. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Boot a G3 from USB pen drive?
At 12:21 AM -0600 11/3/08, Kris Tilford wrote: On Nov 2, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Steve R wrote: Can an iMac G3 boot from USB? The colored iMacs and iBooks can boot USB. It's slow, since it's USB 1.0. Why would you want to do this? Normally, it'd be for emergency use only, such as to clone an internal HD to a Firewire HD in a completely safe way. To boot USB the easiest way is to use the Option boot and select the bootable USB device from the selection. The other way is to use Startup Disk from OS 9.2. Startup Disk in all versions of OS X WILL NOT boot a colored iMac or iBook. I believe that XPostFacto may also be able to do it using a helper disk. It's been a while since I messed with that. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Green Real Estate: http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/ Straw Bale Registry: http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/ Books/videos/software: http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
