[X4U] OSX System/Carbon Copy Cloner question

[Matthew Barr]

Read the article.  It basically says that any OS update before your 
machine came out will not support your machine.  The opposite also 
applies.  Any OS rev that comes out after the machine is released, such 
as 10.3.8, should support any machine that can run OS X.  Thus, a clean 
install of 10.3.8 should be able to run a mini, a G5, an iBook, a G4 
Sawtooth, and a G3 that was supported.

I've cloned systems from G5 to G4.  There is no difference.  As long as 
you take a machine that's got a rev'ed OS, you'll be fine.  Apple 
doesn't release new hardware that often, and they release point revs 
often.  For a short time, you'll have trouble with the images.. but 
soon you'll be good to go.

So, in short, OS X does a universal install, to use the terms from the 
pre-X days.  Even then, you had the same limitations.  Back in the 
System 7.5.X days we had a few revs that only appeared in-house at 
Apple, or only on a few, select machines. ( I want to say Powermac, but 
I could be misremembering.  Probably the 6100, 7100, & 8100's.)

Matthew

Matthew Barr
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Datalyte Consulting, LLC
Apple Authorized Reseller
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On Feb 13, 2005, at 6:37 PM, John Baltutis wrote:

> On 02/12/05, Sam <kahuna2 at fast.net> wrote:
>>
>> I used Carbon Copy Cloner to transfer the 10.3.7 OS and apps from a 
>> Blue
>> G3/400 to a Quicksilver G4. Seems to run fine; very well, actually.
>>
>> My question: Does OS X do a "universal" install? That is, does the 
>> 10.3.7 OS
>> installed from scratch on the Blue G3 contain all drivers, etc. for 
>> the G4
>> hardware? Or do I need to reinstall and update the OS on the G4 via an
>> archive and install to make sure it has the proper OS setup?
>
> That's what I'd do. See 
> <http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=3233>
> for details.
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