[X Servers] OSX Server and iMac

Peter C.S. Adams adamsp at cs.umb.edu
Fri Mar 14 11:03:35 PST 2003


Thus spake Tim O'Leary <t_oleary at vocrehab.state.ne.us>, circa 3/14/2003:
> We went through this as well with some new 17" iMacs.  It will only boot to
> an image of the OS that matches the one  on the CD it came with.  If you
> want to have a firewire handy to use for emergency situations, you will need
> to install the OS on the FireWire from the OS cd  that came with the iMac.

I haven't tried this, but you should be able to "clone" your internal HD
from the boot disk with Carbon Copy Cloner and boot from that.



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