Evaluating the Leopard Installation Process

Ryan John Cousineau wrote:
> It seems to me the obvious reason that Airport is active during the
> installation is because Apple wants you to auto-send your registration info
> immediately. That normally requires a network connection, so it needs to be
> able to find one, sometimes by WiFi, and WiFi often means requesting the
> user pick a network and enter a password.

My guess is that it's there to aid in recovery. If you use a WiFi
networked share to backup to using Time Machine, like I do, you need to
be able to access the share when you try to restore using the Leopard disk.

[Alas, that isn't so - I tried it. -Joe]

I've restored a disk already, because I wanted to upgrade my Powerbook
drive to case sensitive HFS+. But in the interest of speed, I used a
Firewire connected drive to backup to and restore from. So I haven't
had a need to try restoring over the network yet, and I don't know if it
will actually work. Not everything went smoothly with the operation (I
wound up having to install Leopard on the Powerbook's drive and then
restore all the rest of the files from backup), so I'm glad I didn't try
a network restore.

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Paul Schinder
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