[geeks] Mac Question

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Monday, March 25, 2002, at 06:19 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> To what extent can one swap harddrives between macs without having to
> reinstall?  I'm guessing that going from 68k macs to PPC or vice-versa 
> would
> be problematic.  What about between a PPC Nubus machines and a PPC PCI
> machine?  What about between a 660av and an 840av?

Depends on what system revision.  For 7.5.x, you can have a "universal" 
disk that would boot a PPC mac (anything up to a G3), or a 68k mac.  It 
depends on if the OS is supported on that mac.  See 
http://www.lowendmac.com for info on what runs on what.  Also, after 8.1 
all bets are off - HFS+ partitions won't boot on 68K macs.  (But HFS 
will, and 68040 macs were supported in 8.1)

660av and 840av are identical as fas as boot disks go.

Macs are pretty tolerant. :-)

-Pete (Who has a nice 7.5.5 external disk to boot most of the macs in 
the "collection")