Bootable OS9 CCC to 2nd HD - NOT

Boot from Mac OS 9, drag the items Applications (Mac OS 9) and System Folder to the second drive in the Finder, and open and close the System Folder on the second drive. No third-party software is needed.

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Hi, Patt -

Expanding a bit on Niel's info -

Carbon Copy Cloner is intended to be used for/with OSX - hence the protest about the file "Library", which is used by OSX but not by OS 9.

OS 9 can be copied simply by a drag and drop process, and remain bootable.

If there's other stuff on the drive that you want to copy, like perhaps everything on it, then the simplest method is to, after booting to OS 9, drag the icon of the source drive to the target drive and let go - Finder will copy everything to the target drive, placing it all into a folder named the same as the source drive.

About all you then need do is to drag the System Folder, Applications (Mac OS 9) folder, and the Documents folder out of the enclosing folder (the one named the same as the source drive) so that all three are at the root level of the drive. The root level of a drive is what you see when you first open a drive's icon.

Make sure the copied System Folder is "blessed" - a blessed System Folder will display the Mac OS glyph superimposed on a generic folder icon. Then test boot to it to verify the copy's integrity.

Several posters have complained recently about OS 9 Finder getting confused and/or locking up when asked to copy too many files at once.

If you encounter this problem, just try dragging smaller groups of files in a thoughtful way, and you will likely have better luck. OS9 was built in a time when there were fewer files.

Several posters have complained recently about OS 9 Finder getting confused
and/or locking up when asked to copy too many files at once.

That would be me for one. I did two things to improve Finder's reliability:
1) Increased RAM from 384 MB to 1.25 GB (and turned off VM)
2) Erased and restored the disk from backup tapes

I can't say if I needed to do both things to solve the problem but Finder is no longer crashing when I copy more that about 20,000 files at once. In fact my million+ files volume will copy in its entirety in a single operation now. Granted it takes a LONG time...


Gary

No G5 can boot directly into OS 9,