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

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: sammy ominsky <s at avoidant.org>
>Date: 2006/08/23 Wed AM 11:06:12 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Princeton Univ. Surplus haul today...

>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.

Oh, so I should have left the 20 Gig HD installed, just make it, say, the slave drive, then choose to migrate the apps? As I am installing the O/S as I write this, can I choose to migrate apps after I install the O/S?

Thanks,

Lionel