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Running Linux on an external FW drive
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Hi all,
I have a school project I need to do where I have to help write a bluetooth driver for the Linux kernel. I figured it would be nice to work on my pbook, so I am trying to figure out if I can install/run Linux PPC on a firewire drive. I would much rather buy a $50 fw enclosure dedicated to Linux than backup all my data and repartition my drive and dual boot. Is there a way to install/run Linux PPC on a firewire drive?
Thanks in advance.
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No, its not possible, unfortunately. I'd love to do the same thing.
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Power Macintosh Dual G4
SGI Indigo2 6.5.21f
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I had read that it wasn't possible on some outdated webpages and was hoping it was possible now.
Instead how does this setup sound? I use carbon copy cloner to backup my current HD to a firewire drive, and then install Linux on my internal notebook HD. What I am afraid of is that once I install Linux on the internal notebook harddrive, I will be unable to boot back into OSX on my external firewire drive. I can specify which drive to boot off of in OSX through the "Startup Disk" program, but can I do the same in Linux, or is there some sorta BIOS / hardware way to do this?
Thanks in advance.
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Maybe, just maybe, you could install it on an internal HD, then move it to a FireWire drive. Then, in theory, you could boot from it using target FireWire mode but thats a loooooong shot.
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Power Macintosh Dual G4
SGI Indigo2 6.5.21f
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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it's a slow way of doing things but couldn't you boot from the Gentoo CD, mount your OSX volume and work in a subdir? The system would not be very fast but it would save you the cost of the extra drive... slow as h*** though
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MacBook Pro 13"/2.66 (09/2010), Mac Mini c2d/1.83 (01/2008)
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Originally posted by MacGorilla:
No, its not possible, unfortunately. I'd love to do the same thing.
Me too. Would it be possible on a PC? Are there any PCs that can boot from firewire drives?
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