>The author of the Take Control ebook suggests that with Tiger the Erase >and Install has become a much more viable method BECAUSE new with Tiger >is the File Transfer (a.k.a. "migration technonology") feature.
Maybe Tiger is better at it, but it isn't new with Tiger. I'm not sure when it started, but I know my 10.3.5 installer offers to migrate an old installation after install. When you finish the install, and are going thru the Setup Assistant (wow, almost called it a Wizard there... gotta get MS off the brain)... it asks if you have a previous installation, and if so, where. I believe it will accept any volume that is available (alternate drive, Firewire storage, network volume, whatever). It also supports Firewire networking, so you can connect two macs via Firewire and pull the data off the old Mac. > However, >File Transfer apparently does not transfer the OS 9 folders - at least I >could not find that it did in my reading of the Take Control book. Humm... for some reason, I thought the version in Panther would transfer OS 9 if it was already there. Not in the sense that it knew about OS 9 and moved it for you, but rather that it simply moved ALL non OS X data from the old drive to the new, so OS 9 would be swept up with all the other data files being moved. But honestly, I can't recall for sure. I may never have tried that bit of it and could just be remembering an assumption rather than a fact. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
