![]() ![]() ![]() And when it is, I image it to an ASR disk image for NetBooting. I can boot into this build and tweak it until it's perfect. Generally the way I do this is by making a test build on a firewire partition. And I'm trying to create a master build image for setting up new machines. In fact, my Mac is a G5, but all the new hardware is, of course, Intel-based. It's exceedingly useful to have a partition format that will boot both architectures, particularly at the museum, where Intel and PPC Macs still very much coexist. ![]() In fact, as it turns out (at least as of Mac OS X 10.5.5), using the Apple Partition Map (APM) boots Intel Macs perfectly well. I'd thought that if you wanted to boot Intel Macs you needed to use the recently available GUID partition table, mainly because that's what it says in Disk Utility when you format the drive. ![]()
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