Kris Tilford wrote:
On Jan 8, 2010, at 2:25 AM, Clark Martin wrote:
I always prefer to boot the machine with the DVD drive into FW TDM and
mount it on the machine I'm installing into. While OS X is pretty
good about installing everything (ironically the one exception I know
off hand is the DVD player only gets installed on machines with DVD
drives). But you are less likely to run into problems if the machine
you want to install onto is the one running the installer.
In OS X it doesn't really matter which is the boot computer since OS X
installs a "monolithic" system with ALL extensions for every possible
hardware configuration (IF you're using a RETAIL install DVD).
Which is what I said.
It's not so much the installation you get but some of the checks it runs
before hand. Like will the OS run on that machine. Now in some cases
this is handy, a lot of machines run Tiger or Leopard with no problem
but the installer won't run on them. But there are other cases where
you'd save yourself some time by letting the installer check things out.
And for the inexperienced person it's really a good idea because they
may end up formatting (or trying to) an Intel system on a PPC computer.
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Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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