On 13/12/2009, at 3:56 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:
> > I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a > whopping 1TB HD, I would partition the HD in 3: > - Partition 1 with a nice fresh SL installation. > - Partition 2 with a clone of my current 24" iMac HD > - Partition 3 (I just want my EyeTV recordings and video on an extra > partition to suit my back-up regime) > > As I saw it, I could then pass the 24"iMac on to the mother-in-law (as > everything was now on partition 2 of the 27" iMac) and slowly set-up the SL > partition as I wanted it, whilst still being able to boot-up the 27" from > partition 2 (running 10.5.8) and essentially have all my apps and settings > just as they were on the 24" without any worry as to what was SL compliant. > > Now, many of the gurus out there will have already spotted the fatal flaw in > my strategy - it appears that I can't actually boot up the new iMac in > Leopard! - it seems to require SL! > > I have now passed on the bad news that I will need to hang onto the old > machine for a while longer until I am happy that everything I need is SL > compliant, or upgraded, or substituted - in general I do not foresee too > much of a problem - I am happy with the move to SL and happy to upgrade > programs such as Parallels & Reunion - my main bugbear will be MS Office > where I have not upgraded from Office 2004 to Office 2008 because MS killed > off VBA and I use quite a few macros. > > However, to get to the point (finally, I hear you say!) what I was wondering > was how will everything go if I boot up in SL (partition 1) and attempt to > run my old applications from their current location in the applications > folder on partition 2 (the cloned Leopard folder) - this would only be an > interim thing - as I confirmed that things ran OK under SL (with Rosetta if > necessary) I would then install the apps in their correct location (the apps > folder on partition 1). > > The idea would be that everything I wanted/needed would be gradually > transferred from partition 2 to partition 1 (in the case of data/documents) > or installed on partition 1 and then deleted from partition 2 (in the case > of applications) and any old/obsolete stuff just deleted from partition 2. > > I would obviously set up the new SL installation with the same accounts as > the old Leopard installation - to minimise any permissions problems with > accessing the old user folders on partition 2 > > When everything is off partition 2 I would clean/erase it and use it as a > second media partition. > > However, I am aware that OSX can be a bit picky with where you put certain > things - so I was wondering if I was likely to run into any particular > problems in the interim as I gradually move stuff of the old partition to > the new one? Hi Neil, This is purely my own thoughts & preferences, others might disagree ;-) I guess it's what suits your needs. I feel you will run into problems with the Leopard Clone being a Partition on the Snow Leopard iMac. I would prefer to have it on an External Firewire Drive, then you can boot Leopard from it. Personally I don't partition my internal drive. I find Leopard & Snow Leopard run faster and cleaner on non-partitioned drives. I would partition an external drive into 2 partitions, and have 1 partition for your cloned Leopard, and the other for your EyeTV Recordings. Another problem with partitioning is you'll never be satisfied with the sizes. After you make them you'll want more here and less there etc. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
