[Macpartners] Macpartners Digest, Vol 57, Issue 10

[Andrew Munchbach]

I'm almost 100% positive that USB devices are not bootable from a non- 
intel Mac.    Does your G5 not have a DVD drive?  Does not have to be  
a dual layer drive to read a dual-layer disc.

Also, you can "clone" the CD onto an external Firewire drive and boot  
from that if the internal DVD drive is not an option.  Use Disk  
Utility to do this.

-A

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Andrew Munchbach
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Consultant - Departmental IT Resources
E19-630
amunch at mit.edu
(617) 253-0157

On Feb 22, 2008, at 12:15 PM, macpartners-request at MIT.EDU wrote:

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> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:12:41 -0500
> From: Felix Kreisel <fjk at MIT.EDU>
> Subject: [Macpartners] booting PowerMac G5 from external USB drive
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> Hi,
> I am trying to install Leopard from an external USB DVD-DL drive. This
> device, a LiteOn DX-20A3H rewriteable, drive does not show up on the
> list of bootable devices in either Preferences->Startup Disk or when
> booting with the Option key down.
> I am tearing my hair out because I bought the LiteOn drive
> specifically to upgrade the Mac to Leopard. Can anyone suggest a
> solution?
> Many thanks,
> Felix
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