One Boot Drive, Multiple Macs

groove-agent

macrumors 68020

Original poster

• Jul 20, 2007

• #1

I have a few Intel Macs that I use, and was wondering if it would be possible to simply use a single external boot drive with multiple intel macs. Has anyone done this successfully, and are there any problems associated with this technique?

Thanks in advance.

 

Eidorian

macrumors Penryn

• Jul 20, 2007

• #2

You can installed OS X onto an external drive. You just need to make sure the version on it is newer then what shipped with the Intel Mac.

 

groove-agent

macrumors 68020

Original poster

• Jul 21, 2007

• #3

What about driver issues? Let's say you do the install on an Intel iMac then boot it using an Intel Macbook Pro?

 

Eidorian

macrumors Penryn

• Jul 21, 2007

• #4

groove-agent said:

What about driver issues? Let's say you do the install on an Intel iMac then boot it using an Intel Macbook Pro?

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I build my Intel OS X build on a Mac mini with 10.4.7. It's currently at 10.4.10 and works just fine on my Mac Pros as well. (They shipped with 10.4.9)

You just need to make sure your external boot version is newer then the version that shipped with your Mac. I suggest using your Santa Rosa laptop as the installer and then update it to the latest version.