{"id":36,"date":"2005-07-02T04:14:48","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T11:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2006-03-01T00:08:14","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T08:08:14","slug":"osx4-tiger-boots-from-external-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/02\/osx4-tiger-boots-from-external-hard-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"OS X 10.4 Tiger Boots from External Hard Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/upgrade_tiger.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"76\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"OSX Tiger installation image\" \/> Finally I got around to upgrade Grace&#8217;s Mac to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>But before I started with the upgrade, I wanted to make sure Tiger could run smoothly on the aging <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=43103\" target=\"_blank\">PowerMac (AGP) <\/a> running at a meager 450Mhz, about half the speed of my <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=88371\" target=\"_blank\">Titanium PowerBook G4 (DVI)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Test install on the second 60GB hard drive went well. Speed was acceptable &#8212; no noticeable slow down or hiccups compared to Panther. <\/p>\n<p>Then just out of couriosity, having read that booting OS X from external Firewire drives was possible, I installed Tiger on my spare 6GB Firewire\/USB drive just to KNOW it&#8217;s possible. Not surprisingly, it booted like it should (a bit slow though).<\/p>\n<p>If I am not mistaken, I don&#8217;t believe this can be done on a Windows OS since hardware information is inserted into OS&#8217;s registry, thus making a boot on a different machine impossible. In fact, just booting FROM an external drive can prove to be difficult without thorough knowledge about PC hardware and Microsoft Windows OS.<\/p>\n<p>I also found a few articles (<a href=\"http:\/\/linuxdevices.com\/news\/NS2850840818.html\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.developertutorials.com\/tutorials\/linux\/boot-linux-firewire-device-050412\/page2.html\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mgalug.org\/node\/view\/168\" target=\"_blank\">3<\/a>) on installing an external boot drive using Linux. But even with Linux&#8217;s flexibility, it still requires some fiddling with MBR (master boot record). No plug &#038; play there. <a href=\"http:\/\/www-106.ibm.com\/developerworks\/linux\/library\/l-fireboot.html?ca=dgr-lnxw42FireBoot\" target=\"_blank\">One article<\/a>, written by an IBM engineer, suggested booting from a USB 2.0 drive arguing USB 2.0&#8217;s popularity on standard PC hardware.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the upgrade was a success. Everything was mrigrated without major issues, though StuffIt Delux had some issues, that went away after patching a 9.0.2 updater.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine doing anything Windows now that I&#8217;ve had it so easy and simple on the Macs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s so easy to install Apple&#8217;s OS X 10.4 Tiger on to an external Firewire drive that you can use as an emergency drive to boot from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,10,14,3,4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-geek-stuff","category-linuxunix","category-mac-osx","category-tips-tricks","category-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}