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

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Michael Parson <mparson at bl.org>
>Date: 2006/08/23 Wed AM 10:59:30 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Princeton Univ. Surplus haul today...

>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.

I think he was responding to my "run the apps off the old drive" option, in effect supporting your suggestion...

That's how I read it, anyway.

Lionel