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Old November 7th, 2008, 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Hughvane View Post
Firstly, I don't think you can boot a computer as old as that clamshell from an external device
Yes, you can, just not from USB.

As a loose rule-of-thumb:

PowerPC: Boot from FireWire.
Intel: Boot from USB.
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