Re: install help - mounting external firewire cd-rom drive

[Glen Henshaw <glen.henshaw%gmail.com@localhost>]

AHA! Got it. Your dmesg | more suggestion showed that it was picked up
as...wait for it... cd1a. Duh. Now installing...

Thanks,
Glen


On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Glen Henshaw 
> <glen.henshaw%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> It does have a USB port, but this particular generation of Mac won't
>> boot from USB devices. Hence, the firewire drive.
>
> Well, there's nothing stopping you from booting the CD from the
> firewire drive, then moving the CD over to the USB drive after it
> boots the install kernel. If the USB drive is supported, this should
> work.
>
> Andy
>