Harry, Based on what Lee has said you would simply take the firewire drive that had SuperDuper on it and plug it into the Mini. Boot holding down the option key and choose the firewire drive. From there I assume you walk through SuperDuper to duplicate the drive onto the Mini. One thing, I am not sure the Mini will have the same files for the operating system that the iMac does? If that isn't a problem then this should work.
John On Mar 22, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > Another question for my friend (see my question about changing root > users). > > My friend has an iMac running 10.4 (with all the latest updates) He > also > has a Mac Mini running the same system. > > The iMac is his primary computer, but he wants to make the Mac Mini > his > primary computer. > > Can he use superduper on the iMac to create a mirror image, then > connect > the computers to one another via target disk mode and transfer > everything to the Mac Mini? > > Is this the best way to do this? > > Should the Mac Mini be in target disk mode or the iMac? > > Thanks. > > Harry > > ps we have saved everything from the Mac Mini to dvd. We want to erase > the Mac Mini before installing the system from the iMac. > > Saturday, March 14, 200910:42 AMWayne [email protected] > >> John, >> >> Super Duper is rather SUPER DUPER indeed! It will create a mirror >> image (and bootable) copy of your internal hard drive and format then >> copy that image to an external drive. It works GREAT. I used it >> when I upgraded my Macbook hard drive from 60GB to 320GB. I had ZERO >> problems with this software. >> >> Check out this handy dandy guide: http://homepage.mac.com/dnanian/ >> SuperDuper/SuperDuper.pdf It is what I used for my hard drive >> upgrade. That should answer most of your questions. >> >> HTH, >> Wayne >> >> >> On Mar 14, 2009, at 1:31 AM, Profile wrote: >> >>> Folks, I need some direction. >>> >>> I have an iMac that has been weird ever since I tried to defrag with >>> TechTools. I even had to do an reinstall of Leopard using the >>> append >>> method. That helped for awhile but now it is slow and won't reboot. >>> >>> I have TechTools running again tonight but if it finds nothing wrong >>> (I have already used DiskWarrior to rebuild the directory) I will >>> reformat the hard drive and start all over but here is my question. >>> >>> I have a complete backup on both Time Machine and SuperDuper. I >>> have >>> NEVER had to use them to restore and am wondering how to do a total >>> and complete restore using either of these. >>> >>> Supposedly the SuperDuper is a bootable drive, if so how does this >>> work. Do I hold down a particular key when rebooting to choose the >>> SuperDuper drive? If I then boot from that drive how do I then use >>> the software to completely restore the iMac drive? What steps do >>> I go >>> through. I would use the Mac OS install disk to reformat, do I then >>> reboot to the SuperDuper drive or do I go ahead and install the OS >>> and >>> THEN use SuperDuper? >>> >>> I am needing direction so I do this correctly, and I am hoping that >>> using it this way will not put back onto the drive whatever was >>> causing the problem. >>> >>> Many thanks for any help by those that have used this before. >>> >>> John >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >>> be March 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >>> Posting address: [email protected] >>> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/ >>> macgroup >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >> be March 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >> Posting address: [email protected] >> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be March 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: [email protected] > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > ----------------- End Forwarded Message ----------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be March 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: [email protected] > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be March 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
