Copy Jaguar install to new drive & partition ? |
March, 26, 2003 3:07 PM |
rjenness |
Hi all, System is 8500 w/Sonnet G3 450/320MB/4+4 GB HD/Apple 600i/ATI Rage 128 I just ordered an IBM 36 GB drive to replace one of my internal 4 GB drives (It was getting very sluggish spinning up. When I boot into OS 9 on the other drive it usually isn't ready in time to show up and I've noticed that booting into 10.2.4 I get multiple messages that it can't find the boot drive until it finally spins up.) How do I get my happily installed 10.2.4 system onto the new drive. Is it as easy as copying it or do I have to go through a special procedure? I'd rather not have to go through the install again as I am pretty happy with the way it is now. Also, any thoughts on partitioning strategies? Is the 8 GB partition requirement just for ATA drives? I'll probably leave OS 9.2.2 on the second internal 4 GB drive and put Jaguar and Classic on the new drive. I'd rather not partition it if it's not required. Rob |
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RE: Copy Jaguar install to new drive & partition ? |
March, 27, 2003 10:35 PM |
rjenness |
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Thanks for the tips! I'm up and running on the 36G drive now. I did have some difficulty, though. CCC seemed to stop about 80% of the way through. From the list it looked like it was trying to copy the trash files but never did. I just quit and rebooted to OS 9, ran XPF and tried to boot but it wouldn't come up. I compared the drives and noticed a few files and folders (mostly invis.) weren't on the target drive so I just copied them while in OS 9, ran XPF again, and then it did boot. I figured I should go through permissions and disk repairs once I was up and it seems to be good now. |
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piece of cake |
March, 26, 2003 4:23 PM |
naturist |
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but you will want to use a piece of shareware called Carboncopy Cloner to do it. When you get the new drive, boot up your OS 9 startup drive, and use XPF to install the boot extensions and drivers on the new drive first. Reboot into your old OS X drive, then launch CCC and have it copy your current boot drive onto the new hard drive. Finally, reboot into OS 9, and use it to boot up the new hard drive. Be sure to reinstall the boot extensions and drivers as you do it, and voila! |
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