Booting from Firewire CD drive on a Pismo

Will the Pismo boot from a Firewire CD drive?

No. The only drives that will boot an Intel Mac are GUID partitioned hard drives with an Intel version of Mac OS X. Since the G3 is not an Intel Mac, that won't work. There are dual boot configurations for hard drives to boot Intel and PowerPC, but they must have the PowerPC version of Mac OS X installed on the regular Mac File System formatted partition. To create such a dual boot hard drive, you need to follow these instructions:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2006061610374449
The only versions of Mac OS X I would install for booting the Pismo have these logos on their discs:
The gray disks which come with another Mac will not work on the Pismo.
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