Hi Klaus1
Thanks for the reply. I did not realize you could copy an O/S while it was in use - thanks for the correction.
I successfully updated the OS on the external hard drive to 10.5.6 - from a DVD. The drive however would still not boot my G5.
Turns out that my OWC-Mercury Elite AL Pro - 1TB drive, was wired incorrectly. To run properly with the Mac G5 PPC - the drive interface board has to be limited to address no more than 2.2TB. Even if it is hooked to a 1TB hard drive.
On newer models there is a red switch inside that needs to be set to Position 1 - on the drive I received the setting is hard wired in. No Switch. So I'm returning the drive to OWC for repair...
This is a real bummer - because the reason I bought that drive was because it was advertised as being set up to act as a Firewire boot drive to work with the PPC G5 at 10.3 or better. Can't tell how many hours I've spent trying to find out what was wrong...
At any rate - I'll have another drive here in a few days - and we'll see how that goes. I plan to use CCC to copy the data from the first drive - to the new one. In which case the new one should act as a Boot Drive. {fingers crossed}.
I will mention for others that might read this thread - it is important to keep in mind that Disks are Partitioned - - and Volumes use both a Partition Type and a File System. It took me too long to understand that and keep the acronyms straight - LOL
Looking at the Get-Info on my hard drive I see
DISK
- Partition Type - Apple Partition Scheme {APS} I think this is also called APM Apple Partition Map.
VOLUME
- Partition Type - Apple HFS
- File System - Mac OS Extended {journaled}
Don't know if that is correct or not - but it matches my internal hard drive settings.
FWIW,
Carl