I wonder if I can use the DVDs following the machine with the Old system of Leopard in order to create a boot drive when my system now is updated to 10.5.8?
Not sure where those recovery disks / system disks are.
Can I createa a boot disc or drive for 10.5.8 without the installation disks?
Or can I create a boot disc from the existing system files on my mac?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 4 Gb Ram, 2.4 GHZ Intel Core Duo 2
Hello,
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Or SuperDuper...
But that does require me to have a boot drive or boot dvd in the first place does it not? Can i copy macintosh hd from super duper when running the mac from macintosh hd?
So how to make a boot without the original dvds if possible?
Simen Myrberget wrote:
But that does require me to have a boot drive or boot dvd in the first place does it not?
The drive you are booted from normally and whilst running the clone software mentioned by BDAqua IS your boot drive, you need nothing else apart from a spare external hard drive to copy the volume to.
Can i copy macintosh hd from super duper when running the mac from macintosh hd?
Yes.
Ok. I thought that the Macintosh harddrive could be using the system at the same time as being cloned. I thought it had to remain "seated" while the system was running from a USB or Dvd or something. Well thanks always something new to learn. Thanks
Nope. If you want to do a block copy however things are different but for what you are after a file level copy should be fine.
Ok. Then I am back to my orginal question. How to make a boot partation do I need the original dvds and does it matter if I recover the orgiginal dvds that the system on those dvds are from early system 10.4 (Tiger I am not sure), when I am now running 10.5.8?
Simen Myrberget wrote:
Ok. Then I am back to my orginal question. How to make a boot partation do I need the original dvds and does it matter if I recover the orgiginal dvds that the system on those dvds are from early system 10.4 (Tiger I am not sure), when I am now running 10.5.8?
No.
I'm making the assumption you want to be able to boot from an external partition that is exactly the same as your internal drive in case of drive failure etc?
If so, download CCC or SuperDuper as instructed and follow the instructions, it's pretty self explanantory.
Both will produce bootable clones of your boot drive even if you are running from it at the time.
My original Nope, above was in reply to this part of your earlier post.....
I thought it had to remain "seated" while the system was running from a USB or Dvd or something.
Ok. You are right. But I want to make a partition so I can boot from it in order to make a carbon copy or superduper clone of my macintosh hd.
So does that mean that Superduper will create a boot drive only with the necessary system files and perhaps the utilities too? Would that be about 20-40 GB or so?
Right then. The cloning utilities mentioned will make a clone of your current drive and in their case can do it on a smaller partition if need be, (make it at least 15GB bigger than your production machine). Those clones will still have everything you use on a day to day basis, (documents and apps etc), so yes you can boot from them to do whatever you like.
Is there a reason you want to minimise footprint, if so If it were me, I'd install a fresh copy on a small external partition, (20GB will be fine), and you can use Disk Utility on this partition to do what you like once booted from it.
Ok. Just to be sure, my Macintosh Hd now contains 180GB of data and the total size is 240GB. So Superduper will "understand" based on my settings? that Superduper is only suppose to make a boot of the system and utilites not the entire 180 GB of information? So I can make this with a partation size on another drive of about 40GB?
Simen Myrberget wrote:
Ok. Just to be sure, my Macintosh Hd now contains 180GB of data and the total size is 240GB. So Superduper will "understand" based on my settings? that Superduper is only suppose to make a boot of the system and utilites not the entire 180 GB of information?
No, I'm afraid not. It will clone everything.
I forgot that you don't have the DVDs. This is how you'd get a system only boot drive.
Simen Myrberget wrote:
I can make this with a partation size on another drive of about 40GB?
If you had a way of getting a fresh install I know from experience that a 20GB partition would work, (maybe smaller).
Best way is get an ext HD of at least 240GB ideally. Clone it, (and boot from it to check it works). Boot back into your regular drive and do the update on that. Is this clone your only backup strategy?
Alright. I downloaded Superduper and registred it. I wonder what is the difference with "Backup without authentication" and with? I thought that like I have done it here is the best, but what is the difference in pracital?
I've not noticed that. At what step do you get given that choice?
Before I start "Copy Now". There are not many steps actually.
Simen Myrberget wrote:
Before I start "Copy Now". There are not many steps actually.
I'm not sure but I did find this thread that might answer it?
How to create a bootable drive for 10.5.8 Leopard?
