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Archive Install + rm -r ~/Library = Clean Install?
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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I would like to install Panther on a wiped disk, but it takes so much time to reinstall everything. Also, I don't know where to store my 3+ GB music and all the other stuff while formatting.
If I delete my account, and take over only documents but not the Library, would that be the same like a clean install?
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If you do aforesaid archive install, yes - with the caveat that it will still preserve your network settings. That's probably not a showstopper:)
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Originally posted by Gul Banana:
If you do aforesaid archive install, yes - with the caveat that it will still preserve your network settings. That's probably not a showstopper
Really? That would be perfect for me, too. A clean install without formatting. Can anybody confirm? What's the advantage of clean install then?
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Originally posted by danengel:
I would like to install Panther on a wiped disk, but it takes so much time to reinstall everything. Also, I don't know where to store my 3+ GB music and all the other stuff while formatting.
If I delete my account, and take over only documents but not the Library, would that be the same like a clean install?
Except you're not reformatting the disk, which would be an automatic defragment, and would clean up all the inodes on the disk (this stuff sometimes can get a bit wonky).
It's not going to be a huge effect, but still, no it's not exactly like a clean install.
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