Simple 'yes or no' question...

[nathan r. hruby]

On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 rjgoos@ydl.net wrote:

> 
> 
> Someone has offered me a 400 mHz G4 Power Mac, with monitor, for a great
> price.
> 
> I am curious...can a person attach an external Firewire drive, install
> YDL 3 on it, and have YDL boot from it?  I know YDL 2 would not boot
> from an external Firewire drive, but I am not sure about YDL 3.
> 

I'm pretty sure no, I don't think linux knows how to boot from a FW drive
yet.  But there isn't anything like a yes or no answer :)  You could
always get a cheap IDE drive for it and boot from that and then use the
external drive for stroage.

-n
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