Installing YDL 3.0.1 From External Firewire CDROM

[peter]

have you tried holding down option at boot? that gives you a list of=20
the drives/partitions with bootable media, you should be able to use=20
that to choose your external drive with the installation CD.

fwiw... holding down 't', i think that boots your powerbook up in an=20
'external drive' sort of mode, so that you could mount your powerbook's=20=

internal hard drive on another computer via firewire.

peter

On Apr 20, 2004, at 1:01 PM, kyle kestell wrote:

> Hey, I have a 15" 2002 Powerbook G4 (Radion Mobility
> /w 32M Vid RAM). My internal CDROM drive is broken.
> I've been looking for information on booting the
> installation cd off of an external firewire CDROM
> drive. The external firewire drive is a LaCie 52x32x52
> CD-RW. I'm positive that my installation cd is good,
> as I've booted it as a test on my friends powerbook.
> When restarting my powerbook, I've tried holding 't'
> (which presents me with a bouncing firewire logo, but
> doesn't do much else at all), and holding
> Option-Command-Shift-Delete (which reads the cd,
> begins a boot, flashes what looks like could be an
> error message, and then boots OS X off of the
> harddrive as normal.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
> Is booting the installation CD off of an external
> firewire disk even possible?
>
>
> =09
> 	=09
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