on 02/08/04 22:06, Brian Braunschweiger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 2:52 PM -0400 08/02/2004, G-Books wrote: >> >>> Will a Pismo boot OS X 10.3 from an external Firewire drive? >>> >>> If so, until I can get a bigger internal drive I need to move Panther >>> from my iMac to this external drive. I'm getting ready to sell the >>> iMac. >> >> Brian, >> >> >> Download the freeware program called "CCC" which stand for Carbon Copy >> Cloner. This great utility will greatly decrease the amount of time it >> will take to move Panther and everything else to your new drive. You >> can this either via a firewire drive or through Target Disk Mode. CCC >> can be found here: http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html > > > > I was under the impression that you shouldn't use CCC to move a > system BETWEEN machines - that at the deep and invisible level the OS > is hooked into a specific machine after an install and to simply move > it to another model (in this case an iMac 500 to a Pismo 400) things > may basically work but that I would be asking for trouble in the long > run.
Hmmm, as far as I've seen, OS X installs everything to run the OS on any machine. For example, on my Pismo, I have all the kernel extensions for the nVidia video cards even though my Pismo only has an ATI Rage. I haven't read any report that the OS X installation on a machine was that machine specific. -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooks's Law prov.: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" -- a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting development work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and author of "The Mythical Man-Month" (Addison-Wesley, 1975, ISBN 0-201-00650-2), an excellent early book on software engineering. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
