XPF Cloner |
March, 01, 2003 4:01 AM |
jonz |
Any chance of a bootable clone utility being written based on XPostFacto ? I am sure there are many, like me, who are unable to use Carbon Copy Cloner to create a bootable back-up of an XPF enabled OS X. |
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RE: XPF Cloner |
March, 05, 2003 12:40 PM |
nees |
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I found the following with CCC. 1. Use CCC version 1.3 with 10.1.5 and earlier OSX versions. Use CCC 2.1.2 on 10.2 and later OSX versions. 2. I had to partition the target disk with Drive Setup from OS9 (I used the version that came with 9.2). Trying to partition a drive with the OSX utility did NOT give me a usbable copy. This may be related to the XPF requirement for installation. 3. With CCC version 2.1.2 and OSX 10.2, be sure to use "Bless OldWorld Disk" like Manuel mentioned. 4. Intial cold starts failed to restart on the cloned target disk. But later they did for unknown reasons. Good luck |
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RE: XPF Cloner |
March, 03, 2003 9:16 PM |
jonz |
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Sorry to continue a discussion about CCC on this forum, but getting any "official" response out of the Bombich forum is like getting blood out of a stone. My CCC process gets into trouble with the very first step - verifying permissions - with an error about not being able to set ownership to off on source or target disk: sudo:/usr/sbin/vsdbutil: command not found. The target disk (not a folder) Get Info window has a checkboxed item for ignoring ownership, left unchecked as required. BUT, my Source disk (8GbSCSI) does not have such an item in the permissions section of the Get Info. The ownership is described as System, I unlocked that, I locked it, I changed it to my name. I'm puzzled as to why there is no checkbox there. Or is this to be expected ? Any advice gratefully received. |
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RE: XPF Cloner |
March, 02, 2003 9:05 AM |
manuel |
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If I can add my 0.2 ?uros here, ccc v. 2.1.2 worked like a charm for me. I've a 7500 with a Newertech G4 @ 400 Mhz/ 256 MB RAM. I had to move my previous installation of Mac OS 10.2.3 with XPF 2.25 from a 2 GB Seagate HD to 17 GB IBM HD. Before cloning the drive I reinstalled Ryan's extensions from Mac OS 9.1 onto the 2 GB HD. The 17 GB HD was partionned in two. The 1st partition was a standard Mac OS partition of 4.6 GB with OS 9.1. The second partition of 12.5 GB was my target disk to tranfert MacOS X. I selected the source disk (original 2 GB) and the target disk was of course the 12.5 GB partition. For the preferences, I checked the file system consistency, both for the source disk and the target disk. I also added 'Delete directories before overwriting' and 'Make bootable' for the target disk. I don't remember if I selected as well the 'Bless OldWorld Disk' option. Anyway once I clicked on 'Clone', wizzz bang it took quite sometime, but when I restarted on the new 12.5 GB partition, everything was there ! I even upgraded my system to 10.2.4. I'm maybe not an example as I'm using OS X with XPF on a 2nd partition larger than 12 GB, but anyway it worked for me. |
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Have you tried Downloading a NEW CCC? |
March, 02, 2003 2:49 AM |
kailmusic |
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Just a thought. Maybe there was some corruption in the download? What do you mean target backup FOLDER? Have you tried simply selecting the Disk rather than choosing a folder? And could you be specific with the names of one or two of the "files not found"? I also have a newertech G4/350 w/384M RAM in my 7300. |
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RE: XPF Cloner |
March, 01, 2003 8:53 PM |
jonz |
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Yes, Gb. The target folder is a 3Gb partition of the 40Gb drive, so the 8Gb limitation should not apply |
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RE: XPF Cloner |
March, 01, 2003 5:38 PM |
paul_findley |
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I assume you meant GB, not MB? Some IDE controllers have a first 8GB limit for the boot partition. |
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RE: XPF Cloner |
March, 01, 2003 3:48 PM |
jonz |
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Well, I've tried CCC with and without "blessing the OWD" - still get continuous alerts re files not found - ignore or continue etc. Have never been able to get past that stage to get anything appearing on the Target disk. Blesing wouldn't complete either. [7600/304MbRAM/NewerTechG4350/Radeon/OS X 10.2.4] My OS X is on an 8Mb SCSI drive, and the target backup folder is on a 40MbIDE |
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I had NO PROBLEM using CCC w/my 7300 10.2.4 |
March, 01, 2003 2:23 PM |
kailmusic |
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Worked like a charm. I just installed a new, larger hard drive for OS X. Used CCC to copy the old OS X drive to my 9.1 drive; installed the new disk; cloned ONLY the OS X files from the 9.1 clone to the new disk and booted into OS X w/XPF from 9.1. It worked the first try, without the "Bless OldWorld Disk". What have you tried? |
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RE: XPF Cloner |
March, 01, 2003 1:26 PM |
paul_findley |
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With the step chibi-delenn suggested, CCC worked fine in cloning a bootable disk for my legacy 7500. Without that step, no go. Just for good measure, I might have reinstalled Ryan's extensions from within XPF. |
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RE: XPF Cloner |
March, 01, 2003 7:51 AM |
chibi_delenn |
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Have you tried Carbon Copy Cloner's "Bless OldWorld Disk" option? That seems to be key in getting the ability to boot directly to the newly cloned partition from within OS X. - Chibi Delennâ„¢ |
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