On Apr 19, 2005, at 6:10 AM, Greg Koelpien wrote:
I am mildly surprised that installing OS X on a different computer and putting the drive back would even boot at all, considering the different architectures of the two machines.
With the exception of a few system specific OS X versions (the very first G5's) OS X is a monolithic install, akin to OS 9's 'Install for any Mac' option. All drivers are installed. Only some application installs are determined at setup time (DVD player, for example, will not be installed if a DVD drive is not present.)
I've even used Carbon Copy Cloner to move entire systems to new computers connected via FW TDM (in my case G4's to new G5 systems), before Apple introduced their user settings transfer utility recently. The key is to make sure you don't need the special version of the OS and that the system to be cloned is right up-to-date.
Back to the beige. There are some beiges apparently completely resistant to OS X installations. Also on some, if the HDD is the only drive on it's bus, it needs to be un-jumpered, not jumpered master. This is drive specific, iirc, to certain WD drives.
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