October 23, 2003

Needed To Borrow: Firewire Drive

Okay, it's time to interrupt the flow of what this site is intended to be, for an installment of I Have Always Depended Upon The Kindness Of Strangers.

Tomorrow is release day for Mac OSX Panther. It's all terribly exciting, etc. Thing is, this time around, I want to do a full wipe, reformat, and install -- and that means I have to back up my applications and data somewhere.

Now, if worse comes to worse, I can just gzip it all up and stow it on my OpenBSD server box, but I'd rather not have to go through all of that. So if someone out there, locally of course, happens to have an external Firewire drive and cable they'd be willing to loan me for the weekend, I'd be greatly appreciative.

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  1. Nate on 23 Oct 2003

    Sure you want to do that? Panther has a "clean install, preserve settings" option that will rename your old System folder, and install a clean new one, but preserve user settings (which are in ~/Library anyway).

    Or so I'm told. I too am going to upgrade this weekend.

  2. The One True b!X on 23 Oct 2003

    Yeah, I'm sure. This laptop has never had a fresh install from a clean drive. Incremental updates ever since first OSX. While there is an "archive and install" option for Panther, it's still not quite the same as wiping everything and installing on a blank slate, and people have in the past reported performance improvements (not that OSX performs problematically for me anyway, but...) when doing wipe, reformat, install for new full-version releases.