holding down c with the os disk in the drive boots the disk up but if the defult drive is knakered, how do i boot up the disk using the xternal drive?
Re: usb 1.0? I booted off my USb Zip Drive once... It's possible to boot from USB 1.1, but your computer will not be at it's best, suffice it to say.
Re: Re: Re: usb 1.0? It was in OS 9, so it didn't hurt too bad. Not that I could actually run many apps...
Re: Re: usb 1.0? How did you do that? I think I tried that that once, but when I held down option at startup, it didn't find the disk, since the computer can't automatically recognize Zip drives without first loading drivers from the boot disk...right? --Fred
To force your computer to boot off a system/drive other then your main one hold the 'apple-option-shift-delete' keys all simultaneously at initial startup.