cloning my disc

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Ribenaberry

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Hi Everyone!!! MY FIRST POSTING!!!

I'm having loads of problems with panther and smb to a win2k box. So i'm going to do a fresh install of panther, as opposed to the upgrade i did from jag.

I want to make a copy of the disc to an smb share i *can* connect to on a winxp box. But all i hear is Disc Copy in Utilities. I don't have this, what's the alernative?

I tried to use Deja Vu to do a network backup, but it failed due to permissions.

Can someone shed some light on how I can copy the entire hard disc image, just incase something goes awry?

Cheers!
 
Also for future reference, DiscCopy is now a part of DiskUtility. You can create disc images and make disc images from volumes and folders all from DiscUtility.
 
Okay, cool.

If I reinstall panther, my applications on the other .dmg - how do i reinstall them onto the new installation? Can I just drag them over, like when i first installed them. Or do apps dig into the OS like in Wins?

I've tried to make a dmg with DUtility, but it says 'Device in Use' is this my disc or the share i'm connecting to?
 
You can drag most of these back when you want to.
If you want to keep your settings, copy the content of your user's Library folder (or part of it).
After this kind of copy, I would suggest a "permission verification"
 
Okay, cheers,

Can i use Disk Utility to make a dmg of my whole drive - as a bootable copy? Or am i using the wrong thing?

Cheers.
 
If you're reinstalling Panther you don't really need to copy everything. Just your apps and preference files and any other data you want to save.
 
Yes, use Disk Utility to make a new image, and set the image size to a couple hundred megabytes larger than your system takes up on your disk (if you click on your hard drive volume in the left-hand menu, you'll see how much space is being taken up at the bottom of the window under the "used" label). If you make the image a "sparse image" as selectable in the bottom-most pull down menu in the "New Image" sheet, the disk image you make will only be as big as the files it contains. A sparse disk image expands up to your pre-set maximum size as you add to it, so if you haven't copied any files to it, it'll take up a very small amount of space. If you use a regular disk image, which is perfectly ok as well, the disk image will be the size you set even if it's empty, so if you set it to a max of 10GB, the file will be 10GB whether you've copied files to it or not.

Anyway, after you make the disk image, use CarbonCopyCloner to "clone" your Mac OS X drive to the image you made. You may need to mount the image by double-clicking on it before using CarbonCopyCloner.

Hope that helps!
 
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