iMac: installing to a secondary Firewire drive?

[John Levin]

On 7 Apr 2005, at 18:55, Asko Kauppi wrote:

>
> That looks like worth trying.
>
> In fact, booting Ubuntu from one of these: 
> http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/
> wouldn't be that bad.. ;P
>
>

Yellow Dog offer (hard drive) iPods that boot linux:
Press release: 
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/news/2005/2005-03-09.shtml
They also offer firewire drives with YDL on - which relates to your 
previous query about booting Ubuntu from external firewire hds.

As the shuffle is a flash device, it should be possible to boot from it 
- apparently Macs have been able to boot from flash devices since circa 
1999:
http://www.macintouch.com/usbflash.html
(scroll down to usb booting, and see parts 2 and 3 as well).

HTH

John