iBook External Hard Drive/Bootable ?

[vjmacaddict]

I just purchased a Maxtor MaXLine III 7L300RO 300GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive, and a Rosewill RX30-U2FA External Enclosure USB/FireWire. Still waiting for the shipment to arrive.

My question: Will I need to purchase additional wires/cables or other equipment, in order to install the hard drive?

The hard drive will be connected to my G4 iBook, presently running OS X 10.3.9. I would also like to install Tiger on the external hard drive, and be able to boot from the external hard drive. Will that be a problem? Thanks.

-- vjamacaddict

 

[debroglie]

You shouldn't have a problem as long as it is a firewire drive.

That being said, ever since panther, external drives have been known to not want to always mount.


Here's to hoping you don't have a problem!