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
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