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booting from USB CD-ROM drive?
Name: enigmaaaaa Date: March 6, 2002 at 08:28:01 Pacific
Comment:
I bought a gutted Color Classic Mac with a PowerMac 5500 motherboard inside. It'll come with a two-port USB PCI card installed. Will the PowerMac 5500 boot from a USB CD-ROM drive attached to this the USB PCI card?
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