Re: Pismo booted by external Firewire drive

[Adam Thayer]

On Aug 6, 2004, at 6:02 AM, Mikael Byström wrote:
Adam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Making the installation, not much time, recovering your settings?
Tedious.
No, I can save my settings ina backup, make a fresh install and get 
back
my settings along with all my files. No problem. Copying the system 
also
takes time, which you pretend it doesn't.
With a fresh install, you also DO NOT RISK any potential flaws moving
with you to the new system. Also, if you are in the habit of tweaking 
the
system, it may not be a good idea to move those tweaks to a new 
machine.
Fixing problems are tedious and while it may appear to work for you in
one case it may not work for everyone in every case and personally I'd
rather be safe than sorry, with such a little cost if any.
The thing is, while this is true for a MacOS 9 install, as there were 
quite a few things that were specific to the drive done during the 
install, this isn't as true for MacOS X. I would like to ask what 
potential flaws would move over which wouldn't also be duplicated 
through the install/upgrade/re-tweak/restore procedure you describe, as 
you are in essence, attempting to recreate the state of your old drive 
on a new machine. Mind stating a couple? I would sure like to know so I 
can investigate why this is myself (OS design/etc is a "hobby" of sorts 
since my last class in Operating Systems Design & Implementation).

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