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Create a hard-drive based OS X installer
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Dec 20, '07 10:29:04AM

I should have pointed out above, that the hard drive inside all Intel Macs should probably always be formatted as GUID (or nearly always, depending on your needs), even though an Intel Mac can boot from an APM-formatted drive, since there are some Apple installers and updaters that won't work properly if you run them on an Intel Mac, with an APM-formatted drive as the target. You also don't want to confuse anyone who may work with the Mac in the future, who might not know if the Mac's drive is formatted as APM. Also, I've recently read at least one report that a GUID-formatted drive performs read/writes faster than an APM-formatted drive, when run on an Intel Mac, though I'd like to see some confirmation of this.



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