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X1Lightning
Mar 9, 2010, 10:00 AM
Can i install snow leopard straight to a firewire drive?
If so what is the best way to do this? i don't want to just clone the internal drive to the firewire drive, i want a clean install to play with.



Hellhammer
Mar 9, 2010, 10:13 AM
Boot from the install disk and plug in the drive and install OS X into it. All Mac and some drives doesn't support booting from FW though (can't remember which but you can try it anyway)

X1Lightning
Mar 9, 2010, 12:42 PM
that is odd that there would be some drives that cant boot from firewire

Hellhammer
Mar 9, 2010, 12:59 PM
that is odd that there would be some drives that cant boot from firewire

Yea but it's true. Maybe their driver/firmware doesn't support it or it has been disabled. Most drives do though