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The Ultimate Leopard Question!
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I will shortly be buying a new NAS drive to expand my wireless backup facility for when Leopard ships.  I have a firewire drive that I currently use with SuperDuper for backups/recovery etc, but what I really want to know is,
Will Leopard/Time Machine support boot from USB drive and will migration assistant work via USB rather than just Firewire? 
Answers on a postcard please gents. 
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Pretty sure Intel Macs can boot from GPT-formatted USB drives. PPC Macs *cannot* boot from USB disks.
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Any idea if Leopard will address this or am I **** out of luck?
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Originally Posted by thickdrummer 
Any idea if Leopard will address this or am I **** out of luck?
Migration assistant will still only work on FireWire. You can boot from USB drives on Intel Macs.
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Migration assistant works from every volume I have ever tried. I have even done it from Disk Images a number of times. I would wait a bit after Leopard ships to see if someone can emulate the protocol that Apple is using to have TimeMachine be able to use disks attached to Airport Base Stations to be targets.
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I've just upgraded to 2GB of RAM and a 7200RPM HDD with a mind to making my Powerbook last me a couple more years through Uni. Unfortunately all my older Macs are PPC also.
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You can use Migration Assistant from any volume as has been mentioned. However, to use Migration Assistant between two Macs, the connection has to be FireWire. There is no such thing as Target Disk Mode with USB due to USB's limitations.
So, you can clone any Mac to a USB disk then plug that USB disk into the new Mac and use Migration Assistant.
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This thread would have been so much better if it had just been: "Will it blend?"
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Everything would be better if it said Will it Blend.
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Originally Posted by CatOne
Pretty sure Intel Macs can boot from GPT-formatted USB drives. PPC Macs *cannot* boot from USB disks.
The very first two or three generations of iMacs (the tray-loading G3 iMacs) CAN boot from USB.
They only have USB 1.1, though, so it's merely a theoretical possibility.
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PPC Macs can boot from USB drives from later versions of Tiger. I think sometime after 10.4.7. It is slow to boot and I have found some USB drives don't work.
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It has nothing to do with the OS on the drive. It's the firmware on the computer that enables USB booting.
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