On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Michael Winter wrote: > We set it up so she can boot from the drive that has her Time Machine backup > on it.
Why? Any Macintosh with Lion installed has a recovery partition as part of the disk formatting. You can boot into this partition and have access to handy Apple tools. You can access WiFi networks and run Safari, and you can restore a volume from a Time Machine (local or Time Capsule style remote) backup. For a general user I don't see a need for having an additional external boot drive. Am I missing something? David _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
