On Aug 4, 2004, at 5:57 PM, Mikael Bystr�m wrote:
Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
OS X installs everything for every Mac supported.
This is not 100% correct, I think. Some delivered systems must be to some
extent machine specific as we had great problems with a G5, upon which we
installed a standard Panther (it came with Jaguar). After certain
problems, we received G5 Panther System disks, reinstalled and our
problems went away.
So then, A Panther System from a G4 box, wouldn't work fully just by copying it to a G5 system, even as Panther in later incarnations (updates) may support the G5 systems fully.
This was also common, with earlier G4 machines. But, in general you do have a point that systems *may* be transferable. I'd never do it like that though, as making a specific installation really doesn't take that much time.
Making the installation, not much time, recovering your settings? Tedious.
My personal instinct is that if you go between two 32-bit machines, you aren't likely to have problems,
but if you go between a 32-bit and 64-bit machine with Panther you will have problems. I personally swapped out my 40GB drive from my Lombard to my new Pismo and haven't seen anything but stability improvements (Panther's CoreAudio seriously blows on my Lombard, causing kernel panics like crazy in games and movies). But the major arch difference between the G3/G4 systems and G5 systems is understandably a source of problems. However, I am with Alejandro in saying that there isn't really anything truly different in the OS installs, not even on some hidden level, as I have mucked with the install CDs and installed OSes on a couple different machines and could find no difference. Even the kernel was 100% identical.
Regards, Adam Thayer
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