Easy way to clone iBook OS9/OSX onto a new disk

Post #113,558 by dmarker 8/12/03 6:35:43 AM Reply	Easy way to clone iBook OS9/OSX onto a new disk Want to upgrade the wife's iBook which only has a 12GB 2.5in drive. Have a 30 to replace it with. I can plug the new drive in as a firewire disk & can install boot on it (have succesfully done this already). What I want to be able to do though is to create two new large (7.5GB for OS9 & 20+GB for OSX) partitions, then copy the existing partitions across then replace the disk. I have partially tried doing this type of thing before but I seem to recall that not all files are accessible and esp files that are active at the time of copy. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do such a copy. I can concurrently attach a USB disk & if really needed could install OSX on it & boot from it if that would give me what I need to then copy the 12GB (dual partitions) to the 30GB (new partitions). Any suggestions welcomed. Cheers Doug
Post #113,753 by tuberculosis 8/13/03 8:08:09 PM Reply	If you have a second firewire mac you can reboot a machine in target disk mode - it will act like a passive firewire disk drive. I do this when I need to move from one machine to another - you hold down the T key during boot and the screen will be filled with a firewire symbol - now its just a firewire drive - hook it up to another machine and drag and drop file transfers. Smalltalk is dangerous. It is a drug. My advice to you would be don't try it; it could ruin your life. Once you take the time to learn it (to REALLY learn it) you will see that there is nothing out there (yet) to touch it. Of course, like all drugs, how dangerous it is depends on your character. It may be that once you've got to this stage you'll find it difficult (if not impossible) to "go back" to other languages and, if you are forced to, you might become an embittered character constantly muttering ascerbic comments under your breath. Who knows, you may even have to quit the software industry altogether because nothing else lives up to your new expectations. --AndyBower
Post #113,780 by dmarker 8/14/03 6:16:35 AM Reply	Not sure if this achieves goal ? Goal is create a new bootable disk (30GB split into 7.5GB & 20+GB) from an existing 12GB disk (which is divided into two disks, a OS9.x disk and an OSX disk). Once done, remove the 12GB & replace it with the 'cloned' but larger 30GB). If I were to follow the suggested approach, would dragging & dropping from the 12GB disk (the current bootable one in the iBook) result in a new bootable disk that can replace it. Cheers Doug
Post #113,808 by tjsinclair 8/14/03 1:31:48 PM Reply	Dragging and dropping If you drag the System Folder to the new disk, it will be bootable but in OS 9 only. For OS X, however, it doesn't work that way. Tom Sinclair "Man, I love it when the complete absence of a plan comes together." - [link\|http://radio.weblogs.com/0104634/\|Ernie the Attorney]
Post #120,067 by molbdron 10/4/03 12:42:43 AM Reply	Re: Easy way to clone iBook OS9/OSX onto a new disk As usual for me, I am a day (actually a few months...) late and a dollar short. I don't know if this will help you with the issue you posted here but, I am sure it will help you in the future regarding cloning mac drives. [link\|http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html\|http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html] [link\|http://www.bombich.com/\|http://www.bombich.com/] The site has some tools wich take the sheer terror out of distributing Macs in a production environment. Carbon Copy Cloner can also be used similar to Nortons Ghost to create a "snapshot" of your system as you like it then, should the kids ahem throw out something important you can recover it in a fashion similar to looking in a zip file or, restore the box with your "blessed" image. Hope these tools help in the future..... Think Different .... OK.... Perform Different....only with a *nix backend

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