I did this on my desktop last Summer, but I took a different approach. The existing desktop had started life in 2008 as 10.5, and had had lots of "stuff" installed and removed over the years, including some tools that had overly-intimate knowledge of MacOS X. Don't get me started on all the crap AV stuff I tested.
Some items I had tested over the years had installers that were not very good at cleaning up. It had also been incrementally upgraded from 10.5 through 10.8 I did a complete new install of 10.8 onto the new drive, and then used the Apple migration tool(s) to only bring over data files. I also could have used a time machine backup. Applications I re-installed from scratch. This was probably a tiny bit more time consuming than the disk duplication paths, but to be honest, I installed the SSD at about 0800 and was completely up and running with 90% of what I wanted by 1100. I did install a few more apps over the next few days. This completely avoids all the dd block size, TRIM, SSD black magic, etc issues. On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Zack Williams >> >> OS X's Disk Utility can clone drives - see the "Restore" tab. Destination >> must >> be same size or larger than the source. > > I've had bad luck using Disk Utility for cloning. I stick with SuperDuper. > Or just restore a Time Machine image. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
