Re: Non Destructive Partitioning

2009-02-26 Thread Simon Royal
Dan Well it worked. I backed up Leopard to a sparseimage onto my sons eMac. I had a little scarey moment when I went to clone it back again. I couldn't select the .sparseimage file in SuperDuper. Luckily renaming it .dmg did the trick - phew! One other tip. Before cloning it back, mount the i

Re: Non Destructive Partitioning

2009-02-26 Thread Dan
At 6:26 PM + 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. H

Re: Non Destructive Partitioning

2009-02-26 Thread Simon Royal
Dan. I saw sense, 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 do however have my sons eMac with just enough free space. So I used SuperDuper to clone my Leopard in

Re: Non Destructive Partitioning

2009-02-26 Thread Dan
What's with the cross posting to multiple LEM lists? At 10:51 AM + 2/26/2009, Simon Royal wrote: >I Googled it this morning and aparently as of 10.4.6 you can do it using >Terminal, but it looks a bit scarey. Is there any other program you can do >it with? We've covered this over and over in

Re: Non Destructive Partitioning

2009-02-26 Thread Manuel Marques
Can't you use Disk Utility? It has a really neat partition manager. Manuel Simon Royal wrote: > Hi > > I want to repartition my hard drive. > > I currently have an 80GB drive (or 74.5GB as it shows up in OSX as), split > into two. 73GB for Leopard and 1GB for OS9. > > I want to add a third part