On Sep 27, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Greg Koelpien wrote: > Is it possible to clone to a clamshell ibook that doesn't have > firewire? This would mean, I'm assuming, connecting to another mac > using either a USB or a cat-5 ethernet connection. > > Forgive me if this has been addressed already, but I cannot find > this situation answered in the archives.
You can clone several ways, all slightly problematic. One, boot from an OS X Panther or Tiger CD and after the CD boots use Disk Utility's "Restore" function to clone from a USB external HD to the ATA internal HD or vis versa. This is problematic, for Tiger you'd need to use XPostFacto or a Tiger CD with modified OSInstall.dist file to boot the CD; a Panther CD should boot normally. Another way if the volume you're cloning isn't OS X and smaller than 2 GB is to boot an OS 9 CD and go to Utilities>Disk Copy to clone. If you're cloning OS X or a volume greater than 2 GB you may be able to make a custom OS 9 boot CD containing Disk Copy 6.5b13 which supports cloning large volumes. I've cloned OS X with Disk Copy 6.5b13 before, but it would be a last ditch option. Another option is to boot from the external USB port. This is a little flakey and unsupported on the Clamshell, and also slow, but can be done. You can boot from self-powered (meaning has it own power supply) external optical or HDs, or from flash thumb drives. To do this be certain the firmware is the latest version 4.17f4 and then mount the drive (assuming your internal HD boots). If you're in OS X, reboot and hold the "Option" key and keep your fingers crossed and hopefully the external drive is shown as as bootable in the Option boot selection. If not, try again, can sometimes take many tries before it shows. If you can boot internally from OS 9.x you can simply select the external USB drive in OS 9's Startup Disk and reboot. Startup Disk in OS X does NOT work for booting from USB. If you can boot an external USB HD, you can use any 3-party clone software such as Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper, etc,; or Disk Utility>Restore or Disk Copy>Clone. You could also clone over a network with any mounted shared volume. On a direct computer-to-computer connection using an ethernet cable you might be required to have a cross-over ethernet cable, I can't remember if the Clamshell's ethernet hardware is "smart" and self- adjusts for the cable type? In a normal shared volume, you mount it, but if you were booted from the internal HD you could only clone to a separate partition on that HD. Combinations of using shared ethernet & USB simultaneously gets more complicated again, and will depend upon what OS you're booted from, and where it's booted from. This is all getting very complicated. You might have an easier time doing your cloning by removing the HD and working externally on another Mac, and then replacing it? Good luck! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
