Re: strategy for repartitioning drive
John, A few thoughts. First of all, you have OS 9 on this machine, why not use SCSI disk mode? This would allow you to make your powerbook into a large external hard drive from which you could then back your stuff off. (really bad grammar there...) The do require a special SCSI adapter - a HDI SCSI/Dock adapter specifically for this purpose. If you don't have access to one of those you could always use a firewire PCMCIA/PC Card and mount an external FireWire drive or computer in FW Target disk mode. Much faster than 10Mbit. And yes, you can run CCC to copy the startup volume to another drive. But as far as I know CCC DOESN'T WORK OVER A NETWORK CONNECTION. The drives need to be mounted locally. So the above two options are your best bet. CCC cannot clone to a networked drive, but IT CAN clone to a mounted disk image which may reside in a network drive! You can create a sparse disk image using Disk Utility, mount it and CCC to it. Luis -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: strategy for repartitioning drive
-- From: Phil Burk Subject: Re: strategy for repartitioning drive A few thoughts. First of all, you have OS 9 on this machine, why not use SCSI disk mode? This would allow you to make your powerbook into a large external hard drive from which you could then back your stuff off. Can't use SCSI disk mode on a driver equal to or greater than 4GB. -tom -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
strategy for repartitioning drive
I messed up when I first installed OSX, in that I thought both OSX and OS9 had to be in the first 8GB. Now I understand that only OSX needs to be there. My original strategy was to have OSX on a 4GB partition, OS9 on the next 4GB and the rest would be reserved for data. I have come to the realization that 4GB is not really enough for OSX and that allocating around 7.8 or so for OSX would have been better. Is there any way to repartition, without completely wiping the drive? Assuming not, can I use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy off everything, repartition and copy it back? John Slavin Kirksville, MO [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: strategy for repartitioning drive
On Mar 2, 2004, at 5:59 PM, John Slavin wrote: I messed up when I first installed OSX, in that I thought both OSX and OS9 had to be in the first 8GB. Now I understand that only OSX needs to be there. My original strategy was to have OSX on a 4GB partition, OS9 on the next 4GB and the rest would be reserved for data. I have come to the realization that 4GB is not really enough for OSX and that allocating around 7.8 or so for OSX would have been better. Is there any way to repartition, without completely wiping the drive? Assuming not, can I use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy off everything, repartition and copy it back? John, There is no easy way of repartitioning a drive without risking data loss. It can be done but I wouldn't recommend it. Use CCC to copy the data you want and then repartition it. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: strategy for repartitioning drive
That's what I was afraid of. So now I'm wondering how to get all this stuff off my wallstreet. The logical thing would be to create a folder on my ibook and then copy everything via ethernet. Boy is that going to take a while via 10T ethernet or wireless ethernet. Can I copy the startup partition with it running from the same startup partition? Then I'm thinking, how can get all this stuff back on there when the wallstreet will have empty drive. What about using bootcd to create bootable cd before I copy, and include CCC. Can I boot the wallstreet off the cd and use ccc to copy everything back from the ibook to my pristene drive? On Tuesday, March 2, 2004, at 05:07 PM, Phil Burk wrote: On Mar 2, 2004, at 5:59 PM, John Slavin wrote: I messed up when I first installed OSX, in that I thought both OSX and OS9 had to be in the first 8GB. Now I understand that only OSX needs to be there. My original strategy was to have OSX on a 4GB partition, OS9 on the next 4GB and the rest would be reserved for data. I have come to the realization that 4GB is not really enough for OSX and that allocating around 7.8 or so for OSX would have been better. Is there any way to repartition, without completely wiping the drive? Assuming not, can I use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy off everything, repartition and copy it back? John, There is no easy way of repartitioning a drive without risking data loss. It can be done but I wouldn't recommend it. Use CCC to copy the data you want and then repartition it. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --- John Slavin Kirksville, MO [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: strategy for repartitioning drive
John, A few thoughts. First of all, you have OS 9 on this machine, why not use SCSI disk mode? This would allow you to make your powerbook into a large external hard drive from which you could then back your stuff off. (really bad grammar there...) The do require a special SCSI adapter - a HDI SCSI/Dock adapter specifically for this purpose. If you don't have access to one of those you could always use a firewire PCMCIA/PC Card and mount an external FireWire drive or computer in FW Target disk mode. Much faster than 10Mbit. And yes, you can run CCC to copy the startup volume to another drive. But as far as I know CCC DOESN'T WORK OVER A NETWORK CONNECTION. The drives need to be mounted locally. So the above two options are your best bet. On Mar 2, 2004, at 6:25 PM, John Slavin wrote: That's what I was afraid of. So now I'm wondering how to get all this stuff off my wallstreet. The logical thing would be to create a folder on my ibook and then copy everything via ethernet. Boy is that going to take a while via 10T ethernet or wireless ethernet. Can I copy the startup partition with it running from the same startup partition? Then I'm thinking, how can get all this stuff back on there when the wallstreet will have empty drive. What about using bootcd to create bootable cd before I copy, and include CCC. Can I boot the wallstreet off the cd and use ccc to copy everything back from the ibook to my pristene drive? Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
