Did I read this right? You can boot one 10.3 install across G4 and G5 systems?

the pie man

I do contract work for a living and have learned to love the ability to clone my system to my firewire drive and take it to a remote location, hook it up to any Mac, and boot into my personal system with all my tools and documents. I had assumed my transition to a G5 would preclude this from happening except in the rare circumstances where I am somewhere with another G5, but then I was reading the Bombich interview on xlr8yourmac and ran across this:

Quote:

Q: Does the retail 10.3 install include G5 libs/support in its standard install on any Mac? (i.e. Would cloning a 10.3 install from a PowerBook or G4 tower have all the files needed for fully support of a G5? 10.2.7/10.2.8 had special versions for the G5)



Bombich: As far as I know, 10.3 will be a Universal installation. So yes, in theory you should be able to clone a G4 system to a G5 without any problems.

Now, to me, that would also seem to indicate that I can clone my new G5, and boot a G4 (supported G3s?) off of that clone. Is that correct? Has anyone tried this? This would be be a godsend if it were true...

kickaha

I'd guess that's exactly what it means.



Heck, go peek in /System/Library/Extensions some time. You'll see extensions for supporting hardware you've never *heard* of.



My Pismo has not a Heathrow controller chip in sight (but my BWG3 does...), but right there is AppleHeathrow.kext...



I've been curious how much disk space could be saved by eliminating all the .kexts that one's machine really doesn't need, but frankly, with the size of drives these days, I don't think it'd mean much difference.

pensieve

It's absolutely true. Instead of reinstalling php and mysql on my server after getting everything working on my powerbook, I cloned my powerbook's HD to the G5. No problems. Using CCC, that is. Make sure you format the target computer's HD first because that prevents problems.



What Bombich says is 100% correct.