On Apr 10, 2008, at 9:40 , Ann Richmond wrote: > After much expert advice and counsel from the group I have additional > memory for the lampshade imac and OS 10.5!! > I am wondering if I would be able to move the system folder > currently on > the imac (10.3.9) to an external firewire drive to be able to boot > from > it if I wanted access to classic?
Running from an external firewire drive should work fine. I had 10.4.11 on an external firewire drive to get to classic... until I bought a big hard drive for my laptop, partitioned it into two pieces, and put 10.4.11 on one of the partitions. (I need classic for some worthwhile Hypercard stacks I still use.) > Can I do that? Should I? You cannot simply move the System folder, because OS X isn't so compartmentalized. Here's a simple way to move everything over: . Get a copy of SuperDuper! [1] . Use it to back up your 10.3.9 disk to the external drive before installing 10.5. . As a test, change your startup disk to the external drive and restart. . When all works fine (as it probably will), change the startup drive back to your internal drive. . Restart . Install Leopard. Perhaps there is a simpler way, but this seemed very simple to me when I did it. Bill _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be April 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
