When creating images, I have heard that you should create an image
for each form factor - use an emac to create an emac image, ibook G4
- ibook G4 image, etc. So, I suppose I was trying to understand if
the reason for that was if there was something unique to the OS for
each form factor or if it was what happened after the OS was
installed during the process of installing all the other components
of the image.
Can someone tell me if this theory is correct, regarding creating
images for each form factor?
OS X is pretty forgiving about switching hardware. The only times you
really need to maintain different images is PPC vs. Intel and certain
newer Intel machines which seem to use different OpenGL frameworks.
That is, with Tiger.
With Leopard, however, none of that should be necessary. One image
should work on any piece of hardware that Leopard supports. And even
some that it doesn't officially support. I got Leopard installed on a
400 MHz G4 tower by creating an image of my Mac Book Pro.
I work in a school and we have iBook G4's, eMacs, MacBooks, and
Intel iMacs.
