Boot from Sandbox or SuperDuper Clone
 

If I wanted to start my iMac from Sandbox (External LaCie FW Drive) itself, without doing the copy first, how would I do that?

I'm on Leopard .

Actually, I would need to do that even with a restore from my SD clone (also on the External LaCie FW Drive) if the iMac got hosed,right?

I tried going to the iMac desktop and clicking on the SD and SB icons but that won't do it unless I set up the whole copy (Smart copy or full copy) process.

So how does one reboot from the external drive either Sandbox and/or SD clone?

Many thx,
tuni

You'd either select it in the Startup Disk preference pane or choose it from the menu that appears when you hold down the Option (Alt) key during power-on.

gotcha - thx....it worked both ways.

The reason I might not try the system pref. start up disk would be if I couldn't get on the system to select it. Using the options key makes more sense to me just-in-case I have to use it.

What wouldn't work was trying to boot from the FW using the "T" - that just gave me a large FW icon on the desktop with no mouse ability or any other key usage that I could figure ou

"T" basically turns your Mac into a giant, rather expensive FireWire drive. :)