[geeks] DVD install of MacOS 10.5.3 or 10.5.4

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Mike F <lists at ibrew.net>
>Date: 2008/08/01 Fri AM 11:27:24 EDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] DVD install of MacOS 10.5.3 or 10.5.4

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

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>> 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.

So I guess it is Mini in name only (it sounds like more of a stack of misc hardware ;^)

>> 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.

It would be interesting if the current mini had an eSATA port for external storage, esp. if it could handle port multipliers ;^)

Lionel