FireWire Boot Drive
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eric2006
iMovie Professional
You could just boot up with your system disk and install from that, if I'm not mistaken..
Here's a guide:
http://www.lowendmac.com/tf/010419.html
Here's a guide:
http://www.lowendmac.com/tf/010419.html
ElDiabloConCaca
U.S.D.A. Prime
You can also "clone" your internal boot drive to the external drive, making a perfectly bootable, perfect copy of the drive, using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper -- both found with a simple search at versiontracker.com.
You can't simply copy folders over like you could in OS 9 -- due to the Unix permissions, you need root privileges plus you need to set certain privileges for certain files. Both aforementioned programs do this automatically.
You can't simply copy folders over like you could in OS 9 -- due to the Unix permissions, you need root privileges plus you need to set certain privileges for certain files. Both aforementioned programs do this automatically.
ElDiabloConCaca
U.S.D.A. Prime
Glad to hear you got it working!
Lacie's SilverKeeper also works well to make a clone and it is also free. Be sure that you select the drive and chose get info from the file menu then make sure to uncheck the ignore ownership on this volume checkbox at the bottom of the external hard drives info window before making a clone. Then make a clone of your startup drive to the external but set the destination to the entire drive or a partition on the drive and not into a folder on the drive. After doing this you will have not only a backup, but a bootable system in case something goes wrong.