Hi,
1. It depends on your Mac and firewire chipset, but yes. YOu can
boot from an externalofirewire drive. This is easy enough to test,
just use super duper and clone your drive to the external, and change
your startup disk in system preferences / startup disk to the
external drive.
2. SUper Duper is accessible enough--that is, I managed to do it
with voiceover.
3. Yes. YOu can migrate from an external firewire drive with the
upgrade assistant.
SuperDuper will totally erase your external drive's contents.
Therefore, I'd suggest formatting the external drive in HFS Extended
Journaledwith Disk Utility and naming it something appropriate like
[my hard disk name] Backup. SuperDuper will let you pick drive
volumes from a popup menu and doing a bootable copy is very easy and
it gives you a very nice sentence describing what it will dobefore
you commit to it. And for your purposes, you won't even need to pay
the shareware fee. Although, I do use it in paid mode for my backup
needs and have been very happy with it.
But, that said, the upgrade or archive and install feature of MacOS
Leopard's installer is essentially doing the same thing as the
migration assistant. I'd highly suggest you just install Leopard in
that way and avoid the assistant totally. Keep the backup though,
just in case.
Best,
Scott
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