Thanks. I decided to set up the iBook as Laurent has described to be sure I didn't lose any iBook specific files and/or documentation. I do plan to keep recent carbon copies of the iBook hard drive on an external firewire drive for quick restores if ever needed in the future.
Thanks again, Andre on 2/4/03 3:26 AM, wappling at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Re;first,congrats on the new machine,so far carbon copy cloner has worked > fine for me,I have TI 800 and two external HD's from my old tower in > firewire boxes,being that im new to all this,haveing everything in working > order to reload is a major good deal to me,cause i dont know enough about > this yet,when you decide to copy ,first have your apps backed-up > somewhere,then (i) erased and initialized the target disk,then open carbon > copy and it shows you,disk to record from and disk to record to,I learned > that while in operation ,leave machine alone until completed,i thought i > could check mail during process and I cause it to fail,reset to try again, > all went well.i have 2 complete system copies,each i then update with music > on one and movies on the other.hope this helps > > > >>>>> 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? > -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
