Re: With Tiger is OS 9 pointless?

In <sssHe.107$ps5.1564@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Ricky wrote:
>> > Well Randall, I thought that if I had a problem down the road with
>> > OS 9 or OS X I could reinstall just that OS instead of everything.
>> > Does that make sense?
>>
>> No, not on a PC or a Mac. Just one big partition will work just fine.
>
> On Windows I have to dissagree. The OS is so flawed and problematical
> that frequent reinstalls are the only solution. And having Programs
> on a seperate parition means you don't have to reinstall those
> programs again and redo all the settings. I suppose one might be able
> to back up the settings if you knew what they were but I'm not that
> advanced. With OS X I'm not so sure. Hence the original post.

I don't see how having seperate partitons would help in the case of
Windows. In my experience one of the big problems with Windows is that
most applications install various libraries and other files into the
Windows folder, as well as adding numerous registry entries. If you do a
clean reinstall of Windows then having the applications on a seperate
partition won't help since all their support files will need to be
reinstalled, and the only pratical way to do that with Windows is to run
the application's installer again.

With Mac OS X it's very different, since most Mac programs don't even
have an installer! You just need to drag the application to the
Applications folder (or wherever you want to put it). You can do a clean
install of the operating system and the vast majority of your
applications will still work. For those apps which do install something
elsewhere it is always inside the Library folder, not the System folder.
On the Macintosh apps never install _anything_ into the System folder,
except for kernel extensions (usually drivers for third-party hardware).
On my Mac I think there are a grand total of three non-Apple extensions
installed.

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http://vintageware.orcon.net.nz/
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