On 23 Jun 2014, at 09:10, Jason White <ja...@jasonjgw.net> wrote: > Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote: >> But that really is the worst possible scenario. Lots of bad stuff has to >> happen first, like you've lost local backups, lost the USB installer, lost >> the recovery HD, etc. This almost never happens, but it's truly wonderful >> that Apple has catered for it. Take that, PC users. :) > > I did almost the equivalent with a previous laptop by installing Linux onto it > using PXE to boot the installer directly over the network. It required some > DHCP and TFTP configuration on the machine that hosted the installer, and the > laptop vendor had to enable PXE in the BIOS for me, so it wasn't quite > automatic.
Fair enough, but a baseline Mac is booting from an external machine from code in the firmware. That's pretty special. Short of reviving the optical disc (which is the only type of media whose contents can't change, for all practical purposes, after it's written) I can't think of another OS installation process that's this well secured from disaster. I think that's a pity for those other OSs, but it's great if you need to get back to work on a Mac. Cheers, Sabahattin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
