[Info-vax] Happy 25th birthday Macintosh !

[Paul]

On 2009-01-26 12:36:08 -0600, "P. Sture" <paul.sture.nospam at hispeed.ch> said:

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

Aw heck- do a minimal install and tell Time Machine to restore it. 
Worked for me
last week when I switched in a bigger disk. Took about  - oh - 10 
minutes of my time
and it did all the rest all by itself. :)

-Paul