[Info-vax] Happy 25th birthday Macintosh !

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In article <paul.sture.nospam-F36217.19360826012009 at mac.sture.ch>, "P. Sture" <paul.sture.nospam at hispeed.ch> writes:
>In article <6u67vaFdssd5U1 at mid.individual.net>,
> billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>
>> By the way, let's say you loose the disk in your Mac.  Just how easy is
>> it going to be to load OS-X from scratch?  (No, I have never tried it or
>> even seen it done, but I would bet that, too, is no easier than an Ubuntu
>> install and probably a lot harder.
>
>Boot from your backup disk, and then do the equivalent of a BACKUP/IMAGE 
>to your new disk. You do have a backup disk, don't you? :-)

I do.  I haven't had a need to restore because of a bad disk but I did
put a much larger drive into my Powerbook.  I booted the Powerbook in
target-disk-mode (hold down T during power-up) which makes the device
into a firewire drive.  I then backed up the drive to the iMac.  Then,
I removed the old drive, installed the larger drive, booted back target
and restored the image.  Simple.


>To do it from scratch on a new disk, boot from DVD, select language, 
>keyboard language and timezone, let it run, reboot.

I've install OS X from scratch too.  Simple.  Very much like any linux
install save that I didn't have need to diddle wireless, video, sound
and sundry other bit to make them work.

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