[geeks] DVD install of MacOS 10.5.3 or 10.5.4

[Mike F]

On Jul 31, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Jul 31, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 31, 2008, at 3:08 AM, Jonathan Groll wrote:
>>>
>>> The last comment has left me curious - are you installing new  
>>> machines
>>> on a daily basis, or running off a firewire drive every day?  
>>> (Surely,
>>> even firewire is too slow for that!).  And what are the four tools  
>>> (I
>>> can only think of two)?
>>
>> Some people report firewire being faster than plain IDE.
>
> There was an interesting thread back when the first mac mini came  
> out about booting off a FireWire 400 drive instead of the 2.5" 4200  
> RPM HD - the FireWire drive was faster.
>

I'm running that setup to this day. I have a first-gen Mac Mini with a  
built-in 40GB 5400 rpm 2.5" drive and a Western Digital 500GB 16MB  
PATA drive in a FireWire enclosure. Indeed it runs much more smoothly  
than off the internal drive.

Not too long ago the internal SuperDrive starting acting flaky, so I  
added an HP external dual-layer burner and all is well again.

> I may pull out my 1st gen mac mini and stuff a 250 gig IDE[0] drive  
> and use it as a time machine for our two mac laptops...

Sounds like a great application. I'll probably do the same when I  
upgrade to something more recent.

>
>
> Lionel
>
> [0] microcenter.com has them for $90 for PATA , $100 for SATA
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