Could someone explain to me, or point me towards a guide that explains the various snazzy bootup-methods useful on a Macbook?
I want to buy a Lacie USB-drive to connect for my APE Base Station, ordered yesterday and on its way.
He mentioned that if you have a firewire drive you can do some snazzy booting up on another device. This doesn't work on USB, you MUST use firewire.
I am not exactly sure what it is you're able to do. I've heard about booting in "targeted mode" and other stuff. But what is it?
Is it possible for me to make a partition on the laciedisk and use that as bootdevice? This would be if my mac had a hd failure, perhaps.
Or is this just for using ie. a macbooks hd to bootup a imac? It sounds really great, so I want to make sure I do not buy a harddisk that locks me out of this option. But if its only for using one mac's harddisk (while its still inside its machine) to boot on another device, then I don't really need to go out of my way to get a Firewire interface for my external hd, do I?
I'm confounded
I want to buy a Lacie USB-drive to connect for my APE Base Station, ordered yesterday and on its way.
He mentioned that if you have a firewire drive you can do some snazzy booting up on another device. This doesn't work on USB, you MUST use firewire.
I am not exactly sure what it is you're able to do. I've heard about booting in "targeted mode" and other stuff. But what is it?
Is it possible for me to make a partition on the laciedisk and use that as bootdevice? This would be if my mac had a hd failure, perhaps.
Or is this just for using ie. a macbooks hd to bootup a imac? It sounds really great, so I want to make sure I do not buy a harddisk that locks me out of this option. But if its only for using one mac's harddisk (while its still inside its machine) to boot on another device, then I don't really need to go out of my way to get a Firewire interface for my external hd, do I?
I'm confounded