moving Frontier to new machine

[Tom Donovan]

Rick,

The other thing to make sure of is that the hard disk name is the same on
the new one and that the Frontier folder goes in the same relative location
on the new as the old.

The reason is that Frontier stores absolute directory paths in a number of
places.  Others have written scripts that will fix all these hard-coded
paths, but the easiest way to avoid the issue altogether is to have the path
to Frontier on the new machine exactly match the path on the old one.

Tom

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On 3/7/04 3:47 PM, "Rick Barter" <rbarter at u98.k12.me.us> wrote:

> I anticipate moving Frontier/Manila to a new computer in the near
> future. I am currently running Mac Os 10.2 on a sometimes funky server
> and will probably move to a Mac G5 running OS 10.3.
> 
> 
> Is there a painless way to to this?
> 
> We have many sites running and I hope that they will not be impacted by
> the move.
> 
> Can I simply copy the entire Frontier folder to the new computer if I
> set it up with same DNS name, ip  etc?
> 
> ...... or will this be a tricky, time consuming  process that i should
> put off 'till summer?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rick Barter
> 
> 
> Rick Barter
> Technology Educator/Coordinator
> Conners Emerson School
> Bar Harbor, ME 04609
> <http://www.emerson.u98.k12.me.us>
> 
>