On Feb 12, 2010, at 5:11 PM, deadwinter wrote:
See, there you have piqued my interest. I also have a Beige G3 and I
have an OrangeMicro combo USB/FW card that I haven't installed yet.
The idea of cloning my existing 4GB system drive to a higher capacity
drive and putting that in a FW enclosure is very attractive. Has
anyone around here done this successfully?
Yes, I have. I used to boot from a 250GB Firewire HD with OS 10.4.11
on both my Beige w/450 G4 CPU, and an old 7600 w/450 G4 CPU. It works
fine.
Here's what you do:
Clone the OS from the internal HD to the external using Carbon Copy
Cloner, SuperDuper!, or any other clone utility. Then launch
XPostFacto 4 on the internal HD and select the internal HD as the XPF
"helper" and the external FW drive as the boot volume, and restart.
Should boot.
If you need assistance I can help off-list.
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