Install to USB drive

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Only the latest Macs have firmware that allows booting from USB.
-- 
"No gnu's is good gnu's."   --Gary Gnu, "The Great Space Coaster"


> From: Michael George <george@auroravideosys.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.yellowdog.general
> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 07:22:32 -0500
> Subject: Install to USB drive
> 
> I just finished the gyrations of putting YDL on a Firewire drive and
> that was pretty cool.
> 
> When I was interested in doing that, I was able to readily find info
> that indicated that YDL does not support installation or booting from a
> firewire drive.  It also says that booting from a USB drive is not
> supported.  However, it doesn't say that installation *to* a USB drive
> is unsupported.
> 
> It seems logical to me, though, that USB and Firewire are sufficiently
> similar that to get YDL to install and boot from a USB drive would be
> the same process as was needed for the firewire drive.
> 
> Could someone with more knowledge than I confirm this for me, please?
> Thanks!
> 
> -Michael