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AES - 13 Feb 2005 22:58 GMT

I've CCC'ed my iBook G4 HD to a LaCie 40 GB PocketDrive and now I want
to test the result. The documentation tells me that I do this by
selecting the LaCie target drive in the StartUp Disk pane and booting
from it.

I guess I have some confidence that doing this can't do any damage to my
primary iBook HD, provided I don't do something excessively dumb like
read my mail or deliberately modify any of my primary HD files while I'm
booted on the clone.

Given my limited knowledge of the complexities of OS X, however, I'm
still worried that doing this could somehow mess up some obscure setting
on my primary system, leaving me with a problem when I shift back to it.

Anyone want to offer reassurance? Better yet, assuming the clone boots
up OK, what test actions should I do, or definitely not do, before I
shut it down and move back to my primary system?

Thanks . . .

(And by the way, is psync -- which I didn't use -- now OK with OS X,
after the 10.3.8 update, which does not seem to have produced any
problems for me?)

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news - 13 Feb 2005 23:55 GMT

AES said the following on 13/02/2005 10:58 pm:

> I've CCC'ed my iBook G4 HD to a LaCie 40 GB PocketDrive and now I want
> to test the result. The documentation tells me that I do this by
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> Thanks . . .

Should not be any problem, and if you boot with the alt key down you'll
get a choice of boot disks. Choose the lacie and then even your startup
disk settings won't be altered. Also if there is a problem booting the
lacie won't show up as a choice.

I found a few problems with the cloned disk; mozilla didn't go to the
mail folders, but created a new empty set instead. I think maybe it uses
absolute paths in its confgurations somewhere and since the startup
volume has a different name it can't find its folders maybe. But other
than stuff related to that it all works fine.

> (And by the way, is psync -- which I didn't use -- now OK with OS X,
> after the 10.3.8 update, which does not seem to have produced any
> problems for me?)

psync seems okay too here with 10.3.8, so far. I've had problems with
CCC telling me it isn't installed and then having to let CCC d/l and
install it, it didn't seem to like me doing it myself, but not for a
couple of months. I never figured out why it was doing that.

Andy

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Carbon Copy Cloner Tests?