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How to use external Hard drive as my main
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<blockquote data-quote="baggss" data-source="post: 401012" data-attributes="member: 6762"><p>Uh, no. OSX supports booting an Apple computer from external devices. I think it may be limited to Firewire only but I am not sure. You can also boot from a network drive if you have one set up. Doing any of the above does not violate anything as long as you legally own the copy of the System you are booting from.</p><p></p><p>All that being said, there seems to be some <a href="http://db.tidbits.com/article/08405" target="_blank">issues with doing so at all on Intel based Macs</a>. I know it still works on PPC machines though. Apparently you can not boot both PPCs and Intels from the same external drive partition.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="baggss, post: 401012, member: 6762"] Uh, no. OSX supports booting an Apple computer from external devices. I think it may be limited to Firewire only but I am not sure. You can also boot from a network drive if you have one set up. Doing any of the above does not violate anything as long as you legally own the copy of the System you are booting from. All that being said, there seems to be some [url=http://db.tidbits.com/article/08405]issues with doing so at all on Intel based Macs[/url]. I know it still works on PPC machines though. Apparently you can not boot both PPCs and Intels from the same external drive partition. [/QUOTE]
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