On 4 Jan 2005, at 22:07, dan_A wrote:
On Jan 4, 2005, at 4:41 PM, BigMomma wrote:
Hi All.
I still can't get Panther to work. If I do get it installed on a Firewire drive will I be able to start up from it? The install disks I am using are from OWC. I think they were
If you're talking about booting from a FireWire drive connected to a SuperMac... I don't believe you can use it as a startup drive. If you have a partition available on a
According to the XPostFacto docs you must use another drive as a "helper" if you're trying to boot OS X from a FireWire drive. The reason is that there is no built-in support for FW drives in our machines and so it must be loaded from elsewhere first.
XPostFacto also lets you "throttle" the CPU during the first part of the boot phase, handy for letting slower, esp. SCSI drives, get their act together.
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Cheers
Derryck
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