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Please forgive the naivety of this question but if some one could confirm this once and for all in simple terms I would be grateful.
I want to have an external hardrive on which I can place OSX so that I can boot from it, rather than the Mini's built in drive, not least so that I can run the disc utility on the built in hardrive. My question is does this external hardrive have to be USB or Firewire or does it not matter? My Mini is an Intel Duo with 2GB RAM running 10.4.9.
Thanks for any suggestions
Matt.
Mac Mini intel dual 2GB RAM OS10.4.9 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Presumably this GUID thing also explains why my
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Either/both CCC and SuperDuper! can be downloaded from www.versiontracker.com.

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