Booking off USB with Power Mac G4 Graphite (500Mhz AGP)

[iKokomo]

Having a copy of OS 9 on CD, I have to put it on either a USB DVD drive or Flash drive due to problems with internal DVD.


Is it possible to boot the operating system from either a USB DVD drive or Flash drive?

Thanks!

 

[MacTech68]

It can but with a caveat. Whilst "USB Mass Storage" is a standard that most if not all USB drives adhere to, the AGP G4's firmware supports only certain chipsets for USB booting. It's VERY 'hit-and-miss' and generally a failure.

Also, booting from the built-in USB ports is exremely slow, since it's only USB1.1.

Better off to try to get a PATA/IDE optical drive or a firewire enclosure.