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booting from usb external drive

Trying to fix my old PowerBook G4. I found my internal hard drive is dead.

I'm trying to reinstall the Mac OS-X but doesn't find any drives.

I attached an external USB drive (to try to install the software there) but doesn't find it. When I open disk repair, the external drive is there (the internal drive doesn't show)...

Any suggestions? Can I install the operating system in the external USB and boot from there?

Thanks!

David


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Sadly you'll need a FireWire HD which has the older OS's this system uses, either OS-9 or OS-X 10.5.8.

Your other option is to boot off of the grey OS installer disks that came with the system or a retail copy of either of the OS's I've listed here.