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How to avoid the extra step.
Authored by: hellmachine on Jan 22, '02 04:24:43AM

u are damn right! after understanding the osx structure there are many comfortable ways to work with your data. i partitioned my hard drive in two parts: system and hellmachine. after installing osx on system copy your Users Folder on the second partition. do the netinfo thing (changing the userpath to the second partition) and now a clean install is a breeze. just format the system partition and change the userpath after this to the second partition. after logout/login everything should be as always but with a fresh install.
be aware that some lazy installers put their files in the main library. just create a quicktime-, contextual menu items- or whatever folder in your user library and copy these files there. they should work. keep your system install virgin. as told, backups are way easy now...
only thing u will loose sometimes are kext files or stuff which have to be in the main lib-/system folder. but that's rare. just keep the installer at hand...



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