clean install

[Erik Naso]

I highly recommend making disk images of all the disks from the FCP suite. Makes reinstalling go SUPER fast. Just did this yesterday on a Macbook pro. Save the .dmg files on a external back up drive and when you need them I copy the folder over to the computer and open up all the images on the desktop and start the process. Never have to stick any disks into the computer and like I said SUPER FAST install.

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[Jason Brown]

I’m VERY interested in this…

Let me make sure I understand what you are saying…I’m sort of new to mac.

I simply insert each of the FCS discs and copy ONE single file (DMG) over to a Firewire drive? Then when I want to install the suite, I mount each of the DMG’s representing each disc…?

Should I do this with the OS installer? Can I run this same process to install multiple machines with different Serials for FCS?

How do you guys keep things like custom compressor settings, episode settings…etc? Go into each piece of software and back them up individually?

Thanks for the insight…

-Jason

[Matt Callac]

[Jason Brown] “I simply insert each of the FCS discs and copy ONE single file (DMG) over to a Firewire drive? Then when I want to install the suite, I mount each of the DMG’s representing each disc…?”

no… you are creating a DMG (disk Image) of the DVDS.
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh3.html

[Jason Brown] “Should I do this with the OS installer?”

You can’t do it with an OS disk because the computer needs to be able to boot off of an OS install disk

[Jason Brown] “Can I run this same process to install multiple machines with different Serials for FCS?”
Yes.

[Jason Brown] “How do you guys keep things like custom compressor settings, episode settings…etc? Go into each piece of software and back them up individually?”
Those type of settings are stored in differnt areas of the computer and can be backed up…you don’t back up the entire program….just those settings which are typically in the library. Off hand I can’t tell you where each of them are but I’m sure if you search around on the forum you can find the info.

-mattyc