At 2:23 PM -0700 10/22/05, Andrew MacDougall wrote:
I've got a beige with 10.1.5 installed, and would like to clone this
to a freshly formatted disk. I have ccc version 1.3.1 which says it
may be necessary to install osx on the target disk before doing the
cloning in order to end up with a bootable disk. I'm a bit unclear
on the steps involved with this. Do I install osx, test to make sure
it is bootable, then tell ccc to erase the target drive before
cloning?
I'm on a dial-up Internet connection, so I'd really like to clone
the OS to the new disk to save *many* hours of downloading with
software updater - which I just went through a couple of weeks ago
on the disk I'm cloning from.
Any advice on achieving a successful bootable clone would be greatly
appreciated. :)
CCC is essentially a pretty front end for rsync, from what i've
heard. You should be able to clone directly to the target disk, and
then set the permissions on the clone so that it'll start (see more
below about that)
I use psync. You may need to install psync first, but it's pretty
small. You should be vaguely comfortable with Terminal to attempt
this.
mirroring a drive using psync:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20809
in Terminal, type:
sudo -s
cd /usr/local/bin
perl psync -d / /Volumes/BackupDrive
If it doesn't boot up right away, you may need to run a "fix disk
permssions" on it first. I've also found that you sometimes have to
re-bless an OS9 system in order to get an OSX system on the same
volume to boot. (bless = pull the system file out of system folder,
drop it somewhere like the desktop, then move it back in. The folder
should change from a 'normal' folder to one with a happymac on it)
There's some useful info here:
http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/%7Ewgscott/xtal/backup_hfs_stuff.html
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