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disk imaging VS copying
Name: Brian Date: October 23, 2001 at 00:01:30 Pacific
Comment:
I'm new with the mac, so forgive me if this sounds dumb. I've read one of these postings where someone made a boot disk just by copying the system folder to a disk. So is it just that simple? If it's that simple then why not just copy all the hd files to a CD and run it from there. why bother with disk img's if there's no boot sectors to worry about?
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