[geeks] Princeton Univ. Surplus haul today...

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 06:57:20PM +0300, sammy ominsky wrote:
> On 23/08/2006, at 18:53, Michael Parson wrote:
>
>>> Also, there is a bunch of software on the old 20 Gig HD (MS Office,
>>> etc.) any ideas on how to transfer it to the new 100 Gig HD? I  
>>> asume I
>>> COULD run it off the 20 Gig HD if I made it a spare drive, correct?
>>
>> For the most part, Mac Software doesn't litter your harddrive with
>> stuff, you can usually just drag and drop the files over and be set.
>> Any missing preferences should get re-created the first time the app
>> runs.  You might need to bring over any fonts that get installed by  
>> the
>> app manually (/Library/Fonts)
>
> No, no, no.  The best way to do this is to do a clean install on the  
> new drive and then at the end migrate all "your" apps from the old  
> system drive, then chuck it.

I thought that's basically what I said.  I didn't cover the 'clean
install' part since he's already said he put a new HD in and is going
through the options for installing 10.4.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org