urgent! cloning one os to a new machine

[drxian]

hi guys,

please tell me how i can clone my g3 laptop os9/osX onto my new g4 laptop so i dont have to do all the reinstalles etc!!

i know enough about unix to realise i could do something with dd or cpio or something like that but i dont know exactly how? i have my new machine booted as a firewire device onto my g3 so i could do a dd of my root to the slaved g4 but if im doing dd on a live os then that can screw up? do i need to do it with yet another machine running osx to do a dd between the g3 in firewire mode to the g4 in firewire mode? will this work?

email me direct please xian@lostinspace.com

thanks

[Captain Code]

Originally posted by drxian
hi guys,

please tell me how i can clone my g3 laptop os9/osX onto my new g4 laptop so i dont have to do all the reinstalles etc!!

i know enough about unix to realise i could do something with dd or cpio or something like that but i dont know exactly how? i have my new machine booted as a firewire device onto my g3 so i could do a dd of my root to the slaved g4 but if im doing dd on a live os then that can screw up? do i need to do it with yet another machine running osx to do a dd between the g3 in firewire mode to the g4 in firewire mode? will this work?

email me direct please xian@lostinspace.com

thanks

If you have a network, you can just copy all the files needed for OSX to your G4 and it will be able to boot. I've done this before so I can say that it works fine.

There are some hidden folders/files but from my experience, they can be created by the OS when it starts up so they aren't really needed.

You could use resedit to make them all visible and copy them over to your G4, then make them invisible again.