Thanks, Laurent. I found Carbon Copy Cloner at VersionTracker. Just for my own clarity about how to proceed are you suggesting that rather than carbon copy my existing OS X system and files from the external drive to the iBook that I should upgrade the iBook to 10.2.3 and then copy the apps and preferences from their locations?
Thanks again, Andre on 2/4/03 12:06 AM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on 03/02/03 23:54, Andre Ruegg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I have just received an iBook 800 with 640 MB of ram that I had purchased on >> eBay. I have been running OS X 10.2.3 on the iMac from an external firewire >> drive. The iBook OS install disks install OS X 10.2.1. >> >> What is the best way for me to upgrade to 10.2.3 and transfer my >> applications and preferences to the iBook? Are there iBook specific help >> files, etc. installed on the iBook that I will lose if I simply copy system >> 10.2.3 from the external drive to the iBook? Anything else I should know >> about? > > You shouldn't try to copy your OS X installation. A simple Finder copy won't > do it since there are files and folders for which you don't have read > permission. Try to use Carbon Copy Cloner. If I was you, I would just > re-install OS X from the disk you have. It's then easy to upgrade to 10.2.3. > Then, you can look in your home directory, in Library/Preferences. That's > where most of the preference files are kept. You can usually just Finder > copy the apps you want to keep. There might be other things, however, that > could be left out, like stuff in the /Library directory, but not knowing > what you did exactly install, it's hard to tell. In any case, that stuff is > most likely accessible from the Internet, so if you find you're missing > something, you could always download it again. > > -Laurent. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
