[ale] making a usb thumb drive bootable from a dvd install disk

[JK]

Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Not sure what you mean by "no BIOS" but I'm not familiar with Mac.
> Maybe they call it "firmware" or something else but I'm talking about
> what the hardware uses to initialize itself and its devices BEFORE the
> OS.

Specifically, in the Mac's case, OpenFirmware.  There's some magic
key combination that lets you boot a Mac to the OF prompt, but
I don't remember what it is.

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-- JK

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