{"id":74,"date":"2011-06-16T11:14:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T16:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.williams.edu\/lj1\/?p=74"},"modified":"2011-06-16T11:14:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T16:14:25","slug":"applying-an-old-image-to-a-new-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/labs\/applying-an-old-image-to-a-new-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Applying an old image to a new mac &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is always advisable to build images on the most recent mac hardware you have.  Once in a while it is necessary to temporarily apply an &#8220;old&#8221; image to new mac hardware &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First, update the image to the most recent system update on old hardware.  Then once you apply that image to the new hardware, if it doesn&#8217;t boot the new system, insert the hardware specific Mac OS installation DVD that came with them mac and  boot it by holding down the &#8220;C&#8221; key while booting.  Run the system installation to completion normally but without erasing the hard drive if that is part of your normal process. <\/p>\n<p>Once complete your system should boot and should contain most of the software and data that you had on the &#8220;old&#8221; image.  What will be missing are any modifications you made to system files such as those in \/System\/Library.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>The mac is a file-based operating system.  Meaning that everything is contained in discrete files.  Reinstalling the hardware specific OS over the top of an existing OS, copies in any of the hardware-specific files needed for your new mac but doesn&#8217;t touch any of the non-system files already on the drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always advisable to build images on the most recent mac hardware you have. Once in a while it is necessary to temporarily apply an &#8220;old&#8221; image to new mac hardware &#8230; First, update the image to the most &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/labs\/applying-an-old-image-to-a-new-mac\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10086],"tags":[10095,10096,10090],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labs","tag-boot","tag-image","tag-mac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}