'cloning' my powerbook HD

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Pierre Chatel - 09 Oct 2004 18:27 GMT

Hello,

I'm planing to buy a brand new 15'' Powerbook to replace my aging
550Mhz TiBook on Monday.
My question is: how to make an exact replica of the Ti's hard-drive
content to the new one ? Cause i don't want to reconfigure everything
from X11 to JBuilder and to install each and every app by hand in the
new 'book.
Is there a way to carbon-copy by ethernet ?

Thanks

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Yet Another John - 14 Oct 2004 07:32 GMT

> Hello,
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> Thanks

Not ethernet, but I did it once in Terminal mode. I started the source
drive, then started up the target machine with a firewire cable between
them and the T key down. Got the target drive to mount on the source
desktop. Opened up CCC and, after formatting the target drive with disk
utility I cloned the source and got a bootable mirror image of it on the
target. You do have to set the prefs in CCC so that it's bootable.

You can run into trouble if you have any errors in the source drive that
interrupt cloning. So you might want to try just cloning a disk image on
the target befire you completely wipe the target. If there's a problem
cloning the source you'll find out before you fry the target's basic
system software.

J

ps--There are many differing storeis by people using CCC for these kinds
of treacherous tasks. I find the really safest way to use CCC is to make a
disk image on the target.

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