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
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
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
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
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