Booting YDL from a FireWire drive

Gavin Hemphill yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sat Feb 28 20:37:01 2004


Use Bill Fink's HOWTO from the yellowdog-general archives.  It works 
like a charm for me.  It's sort of neat to boot with the option key down 
and see two penguins in the line of bootable disks :-)
	G++

Paul N. Schatz wrote:
>     The reference is:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5329585
> 
>     I haven't tried it!
> 
> 
>     Paul
> ***************************************
> 
> At 6:09 AM -0800 2/28/04, Clinton MacDonald wrote
> 
>> Someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I *think*
>> Terra Soft has published a method to boot YDL 3.0.1
>> from a Firewire drive. Of course, I cannot find this
>> information by searching YDL's execrable Web site.
>> Otherwise, open up your G4 box and install a second
>> (cheap) ATA drive. That should work (and also not void
>> your warranty).