At 6:26 PM +0000 2/26/2009, Simon Royal wrote:
>I saw sense

Good! :)

>, although I don't have a full back up of my Mac at any given time, 
>just the important files - about 2GB backed up online.
>
>I don't have a big enough external storage device.

I know that feeling; I'm getting tight now.  Had to burn'n'dump some 
vids to make things fit.

>I do however have my sons eMac with just enough free space. So I 
>used SuperDuper to clone my Leopard install to an image on his hard 
>drive via target mode.
>
>Then I repartitioned the PowerBook into 3 (one for Leopard, one for 
>Tiger and one for OS9).
>
>At present I am cloning the Leopard image back. Fingers crossed. 
>Then my OS9 image (which is a puny 200MB) and then I will install 
>Tiger.

Nice!  Let us know how it goes.  I haven't tried the 
backup-into-an-image bit before.

- Dan.
-- 
- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth

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