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

[sammy ominsky]

On 23/08/2006, at 18:59, Michael Parson wrote:

>> 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.

What I thought you meant was to drag the Applications over to the new  
drive.  This misses all the Library stuff where the serial numbers,  
reg info and settings are, and all those apps that need such stuff  
will be left orphaned.

The last step of a fresh install is migrating all that stuff from an  
old system drive.  That way you don't have to search for "lost"  
activation keys for all your shareware.

---sambo