Mac OS X 10.5 installer question

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messiahmessiah
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in macOS edited January 2014
I'm wanting to install 10.5 on an external drive, and I want to be able to plug that external drive into any number of Macs and boot from it. Basically I'm a freelancer and I want to be able to go in to any studio and have all my shit set up the way I want it rather than fannying around trying to figure out how somebody else has set up the Mac (you wouldn't believe how some of the machines are set up).



In theory it should work, but I'm a little worried that the Mac OS X installer will install a hardware specific installation (specific to the host Mac that I perform the installation on). So if I use a MacBook Pro to install OS X on the external drive, and I consequently use it to boot a Mac Pro, will it cause problems because the installation will only have the drivers for the MBP?



It's a retail version of Leopard by the way...

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    paprochypaprochy Posts: 129member
    This is a very interesting query, I was recently wondering the same exact thing. I was actually thinking of doing the same on an ipod. Does anyone know if this is possible??
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    messiahmessiah Posts: 1,689member
    I know that it used to possible, to a certain extent, on the iPod. There was even talk of Apple developing a 'Home on an iPod' feature where it would be possible to keep your home directory on your iPod and simply plug it in.



    There were concerns raised about using the hard drive in the iPod as a regular boot hard drive, as it wasn't designed to run constantly ? but Apple have since used an iPod hard drive in the MacBook Air, so that may have changed now...
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