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From: Malcolm on 11 Jul 2010 04:30 On 2010-07-11 01:07:24 -0400, AES said: > In article <1jlgu4y.3flca2b584s7N%dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz>, > dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote: > >> 4. Boot from the Snow Leopard DVD and install it. >> >> 5. Install all available software updates from Apple (via Software >> Update). >> >> 6. Check everything you use is working properly. >> > > Are there options to remove Readme and Help files in languages other > than English, drivers for printers and brands I've never boght and never > will, and more generally to not install or to trim large sets of options > you may never want to use. > > (I appreciate that HD space is cheap -- but it just seems to me that > searches and backups must go better if thousands of files like this are > trimmed out.) Snow Leopard doesn't install printer drivers unless they are needed. If you connect a new printer it will install any needed drivers. It can download them if the install DVD is not available.
From: Mike Rosenberg on 11 Jul 2010 15:41 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > Tony wrote: > > The Apple website says I have to get the Mac Box Set is this true? > > Apple's business practices say you have to buy the box set if you are > not at Leopard. > > Some of the Snow Leopard upgrade DVDs did not enforce this business > decision. > > But doing it the "legal" way means to have one upgrade to do, so it > saves you time. Actually, despite the wording at the web site, the $29 package available in stores is clearly marked "RETAIL" and the installer works on all Intel Macs, regardless of which OS version, if any, is currently installed. -- My latest dance routines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkxGQmTvctc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTajUBrlA6c
From: Mike Rosenberg on 11 Jul 2010 15:41 David Empson <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> wrote: > > Can I go right up to Snow Leopard? > > Yes. > > To do so, Apple wants you to buy the "Mac Box Set", which includes Snow > Leopard and the 2009 editions of iLife and iWork. > > See the right column at <http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html>. Yes, the web site says this and has said so all along, but the $29 package is clearly labelled "RETAIL." They certainly _want_ people to buy the Box Set, but they don't _require_ it. -- My latest dance routines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkxGQmTvctc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTajUBrlA6c
From: Wes Groleau on 11 Jul 2010 16:04 On 07-11-2010 00:54, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > Note that if your system came with the version of Tiger you are running, you > can't legally sell it, but if you bought a retail version, you can. My personal non-lawyer opinion is that if I buy a computer that was originally sold with version Y, and I buy the version Y disks from someone who has upgraded legally to version Z, then neither of us has done anything wrong. Now, if the guy who sold me that computer sold the version Y disks to someone as an upgrade, then he did indeed violate his license. -- Wes Groleau "There are more people worthy of blame than there is blame to go around."
From: Wes Groleau on 11 Jul 2010 16:09
On 07-11-2010 01:07, AES wrote: > Are there options to remove Readme and Help files in languages other > than English, drivers for printers and brands I've never boght and never > will, and more generally to not install or to trim large sets of options > you may never want to use. Delocalizer, if it is available for your version, will remove the extra language help files. But some of them will be reinstalled every time their application is upgraded. (GRRR!) And they may take more space than you think. I was looking at the help files for some application, and I noticed that there were LOTS of image files, and that every installed language except Japanese had copies (not aliases, symlinks, or hard links) of the identical files. The Japanese images were different (by checksum) for some reason. -- Wes Groleau "Would the prodigal have gone home if the elder brother was running the farm?" -- James Jordan |