At 10:27 AM -0800 12/22/2011, Bill Spencer wrote:
On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:51:29 AM UTC-5, Dan wrote:
...To be honest, farking inside an iMac is such a PITA, I've often
told people to just boot/live off a chain of external firewire
drives and let the internal spin down.
This makes good sense to me. So to be certain I'm following you, a
bootable external drive:
Requires a Firewire connection, not USB
yea. Even machines that can boot USB, I don't recommend it - gratingly slow.
(will FW 400 work? I don't think the machine does 800.)
yes.
Requires being formatted a certain way (which I saw in the Help
files last night but I forget right now what the acronym is)
Since you're running the more recent versions of OS X, on an x86 Mac,
you should be using GUID.
Right? Anything else for this part? Next,
1. CCC to your an external.
2. Boot on the external - to make sure its fully functional.
I take it I'd zero the internal at this point, and somehow set
things up so the machine boots automatically from the external. Will
this happen automatically if the internal has been zeroed, or do I
need to do something specific to boot from the external
automatically?
You can pick the boot volume from the system preferences. If you
don't, then the bootstrap will do the normal searching, taking its
time checking one device after another.
Does CCC take all partitions of the internal and put them on the
external or do I need to do that some other way?
CCC only does one volume at a time. Use Disk Utility to create what
you want on the destination then CCC each, to populate them.
I plan to set up Time Machine on another external drive...will this
setup be OK for that? (And by the way, does Time Machine do OK going
onto a USB external or not?)
That's fine. Just remember that TM gets confused easily and corrupts
itself easily. So it does NOT replace a normal backup made with CCC.
- Dan.
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