On Jun 27, 2005, at 3:03 PM, R. A. Cantrell wrote:
Listers.
I have been given an IBook to use, and what I'd like to
do is
preserve the entire HD volume as is in some safe place, and scrub
the disk
and use the book as my own. I want to be able to restore it to it's
present
condition if it is recalled from me . . .so I have a 20 gig drive
in a G4
(the iBook has a 20 gigger) and I have a firewire cable, and I have
Carbon
Copy Cloner. Can I hook the two computers together, make a disk
image of the
IBook's drive on the empty drive on the G4? If I do that, can I
restore the
iBook to it's present day condition at some future time? How?
The procedure is slightly different if you're running OS X 10.4.
You're on the right track, though. Connect the two with the firewire
cable.
Boot the iBook, holding down the T key, which starts it in firewire
disk mode. (FWTDM)
The other system can be booted normally, before or after the first.
Use CCC (if using 10.3 or lower) and copy everything to the other
system. You can do this to a disk image or a folder.
To reverse the process, boot the iBook in FWTDM, and use CCC on the
other system to restore the image.
If you're using 10.4, CCC currently does not work properly, though
this is less of an issue, since Disk Utility does what you want.
In 10.4 boot the iBook in FWTDM and create a disk image of the hard
drive using disk utility.
(You can 'create an image for restore' which takes a fair bit longer
and calculates checksums for everything to ensure that a good restore
is done.
I didn't use that, but this is how I upgraded the drive in my Pismo
the other day, and it's working perfectly.)
To restore it, mount the disk image, and mount the iBook in FWTDM. In
the restore panel of Disk utility drag the disk image (from the list
of drives and images on the left hand side of Disk Utility, not the
desktop..I dragged it off the desktop three times and stared stupidly
at it when it didn't behave like I expected) to the source box and
the mounted iBook into the destination box. Click restore and go
watch some tv or something.
Voila, restored iBook.
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Bruce Johnson
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