[Noisebridge-discuss] I don't know Macs and this one needs help!

[Mark Cohen]

I just tested booting my laptop from a FW800 drive and booted my older  
17in laptop off the 15in drive.. Works perfectly.

-Mark


On Apr 22, 2009, at 11:10 AM, d p chang wrote:

> Mark Cohen <markc at binaryfaith.com> writes:
>
>> Also, you might be able to share an osx hard drive on a laptop over
>> firewire and boot off off it, then have the tools necessary to test
>> the Imac's hardware.
>
> maybe it is just laptops, but i've found that this only works w/ the  
> 400
> port rather than the 800 port. just fyi.
>
> \p
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