[geeks] DVD install of MacOS 10.5.3 or 10.5.4

[Jonathan Groll]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 07:56:09AM -0700, Rick Hamell wrote:
> Either way it's incredibly easy to load the OS directly onto a 
> Firewire drive, run all the software updates on it, take it too a 
> new computer, boot off of it, and use any one of four different 
> tools (one provided by Apple directly, two coded by Apple 
> Engineers,) to copy that Firewire drive over to a new machine and 
> make it bootable. I've been doing it on a daily basis for over five 
> years.

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)?

Cheers,
Jonathan.