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Use CD-ROM to boot on USB drive

I've a quite old laptop (vaio Z1-XMP) and I would like to install Leopard on an external usb drive before open the laptop and replace the drive. But I cannot boot direcly on USB. Is it possible to boot with the cdrom and ask to go to the…

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@iero Published 2008-07-05
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Leopard 10.5
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3,199 historical reads · 0 curated field notes (from 2 dispatches) · 2008-07-05
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I've a quite old laptop (vaio Z1-XMP) and I would like to install Leopard on an external usb drive before open the laptop and replace the drive.

But I cannot boot direcly on USB.

Is it possible to boot with the cdrom and ask to go to the USB drive ?

Thanx !

iero.

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Author Update #1 @iero 2008-07-05

In fact, it's a pentium-m (old centrino). So, I will certainly not find any kernel to run on this computer..

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