Re: Portable HD being bootable
Hi all I have been using external firewire drives for backups for quite a few years now by dragging and dropping all my relevant files over from my G5 then storing them in a safe place. I am however not sure how to install OSX correctly on the firewire drives so I can use them as a boot drive. Can someone please tell me how I go about this? Many thanks for any advice kind regards to all Chris On 30/08/2007, at 5:50 PM, Reg Whitely wrote: Hi Rob On 30 Aug 2007, at 5:11pm, Robert Howells wrote: Would that have been a USB2 only unit ? It would be good for data storage but you can only boot from firewire externally . I've got a little Western Digital 160 usb2 Passport PocketDrive with a copy of OS X on it and it boots my MacBook, albeit a little slower than native on the machine. Reg -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portable HD being bootable
On 01/09/2007, at 10:16 AM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi all I have been using external firewire drives for backups for quite a few years now by dragging and dropping all my relevant files over from my G5 then storing them in a safe place. I am however not sure how to install OSX correctly on the firewire drives so I can use them as a boot drive. Can someone please tell me how I go about this? Many thanks for any advice kind regards to all Chris The WAMUG Archives has plenty on that subject :- Start here : http://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/ msg41015.html Bob On 30/08/2007, at 5:50 PM, Reg Whitely wrote: Hi Rob On 30 Aug 2007, at 5:11pm, Robert Howells wrote: Would that have been a USB2 only unit ? It would be good for data storage but you can only boot from firewire externally . I've got a little Western Digital 160 usb2 Passport PocketDrive with a copy of OS X on it and it boots my MacBook, albeit a little slower than native on the machine. Reg -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portable HD being bootable
Hi Chris, If your External Firewire Drive is Mac OS Extended, you can install on the external drive in exactly the same way as your main drive - reboot from the installation disk, and when you get to the destination disk screen, select your external drive. The installation will default to the Install OS X for the first time option, which will not erase any existing data on the drive. You can double-check this by clicking the Options button when you're prompted to choose a drive. However, make sure that you do not already have folders with the following names on the drive: System Library Applications Users Otherwise the installer will install files into them and potentially erase the current contents. Cheers, Ronni On 01/09/2007, at 10:16 AM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi all I have been using external firewire drives for backups for quite a few years now by dragging and dropping all my relevant files over from my G5 then storing them in a safe place. I am however not sure how to install OSX correctly on the firewire drives so I can use them as a boot drive. Can someone please tell me how I go about this? Many thanks for any advice kind regards to all Chris On 30/08/2007, at 5:50 PM, Reg Whitely wrote: Hi Rob On 30 Aug 2007, at 5:11pm, Robert Howells wrote: Would that have been a USB2 only unit ? It would be good for data storage but you can only boot from firewire externally . I've got a little Western Digital 160 usb2 Passport PocketDrive with a copy of OS X on it and it boots my MacBook, albeit a little slower than native on the machine. Reg -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portable HD being bootable
Hi All The best thing I ever did was to get Superduper and it does it all for you - in my case at 3.30am every other day to the one partition and every month to the other. I actually use 2 firewire drives this way and keep one rotated off site. I had my first ever internal drive failure and I just switched to the bootable backup for 2 weeks while I waited for the new internal drive to come from over east. Over the years I have messed around with with Retrospect, Apple's backup, dragging and I think some others, but now its like being on autopilot. Regards Dudley Gager On 01/09/2007, at 10:16 AM, Chris Burton wrote: I am however not sure how to install OSX correctly on the firewire drives so I can use them as a boot drive. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
