Re-installing an OS on an iBook
Well, an iBook had a ‘melt-down’ yesterday and the hard-disk got to the point where it needed to be erased and the system re-installed.
Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) took less than an hour to install, however, putting back all the applications and recovering the ‘home directories’ from the back-ups took considerably longer. The machine is now back in operation.
Why going ‘native’? Well, for the first time ever I have not loaded Mac OS 9 on to a machine, the machine is 100% OS X. Will OS 9 be needed? When was the last time I used OS 9? Well, I couldn’t remember the last time, or what program I was using, therefore it seemed like a good way to save a bit of disk space and the perfect time to say good-bye!
