[Toccatexx]

Hello
Im thining of getting a PB 15" with the FW800. Id rather get the 60GB HD, and a faster FW DVD-R later.

but can I boot off the FW HD? can I boot off a partition on the FW HD to run Linux?

I know there are DVD issues on ext dvd-r will ask that in a sep. thread

thanks Tocca

[Simon]

Originally posted by Toccatexx:
but can I boot off the FW HD? can I boot off a partition on the FW HD to run Linux?

I'm not sure about Linux but you can definitely boot the Mac off of a FW HD. I've done it several times.

You can backup your OS X boot partition to a FW disk with CCC and then boot from that (just don't forget to tell CCC to bless the partition).

Generally, you select the boot partition in System Preferences > Startup Disk or at boot time if you hold down the alt/opt key while booting. Selected partitions can be on SCSI, ATA, FW or USB busses or on the network via BootP. General rule of thumb: If the system you want to boot from shows up in the system pref panel to chose the boot partition, your Mac will boot from it.

Now Linux is another issue...