[DM-MUG] I'm Tiger'ed - or is that tired

[Bryan Baker]

Well, Tiger (client) arrived yesterday (which considering that Amazon 
didn't get it shipped until friday night at ~ 11pm isn't too bad. I'm 
glad the estimates were wrong. It might have even been here monday, but 
UPS decided to hang on to it in Davenport  - what you get for picking 
"slow-boat".

Anyway, I had a PTO meeting to go to after work, so I couldn't start 
anything until that was over (~8) and I decided I needed a drive to 
clone to, so I burned another 1/2 running to pick up an IDE HD to slap 
into my firewire box. By about 9 I was starting to tinker.

The reason for picking up a fresh drive was so I could do a 
"Clone->Wipe/Install Fresh->Migrate from clone" install. The last time 
I did this (about 1.5 yrs ago :-)) I used CCC to do the cloning, but 
I'd seen some oblique references to Disk Utility's ability to clone a 
drive using ASR, but hadn't seen any clear documentation or instruction 
and the instructions on the "Restore" tab weren't too transparent, so 
it confused me. I started trying to use "Make Image from Folder" but I 
knew I'd end up with a .dmg or .img file and I wasn't sure I would be 
able to use the migrate tool with it. While I was about midway through, 
I discovered a more straightforward reference on the web that said in 
plain english: You can clone a drive using the "Restore" tab of "Disk 
Utility" using the drive to be cloned as the source (my old internal)  
and the destination set as the shiny new drive i wanted the clone to be 
on. By the time I'd really got it started right, it was about 11:30pm I 
kept checking on it until I finally went to sleep ~ 1am - at about 4am 
I got up to go to the bathroom, so I checked and sure enough it was 
done cloning - I booted off the clone (to check) and it looked like it 
worked fine. And being paranoid, I also decided to back up my iPhoto 
library and my full (~25gb) iTunes library. That was going to take a 
while as well, so went back to bed. Got up about 6 or so and that was 
done - time to start the install. Got to the install "style" page, held 
my breath and clicked the one that said wipe/install fresh. I did this 
so that I could have the new migration wizard move all my files for me 
(and leave out the kruft) and get a fairly fresh start. Once it 
finished the install and restarted, it gave me the option to migrate 
from an old "machine" in this case it was just my firewire drive, not 
another machine acting as if it were a firewire drive. It let me choose 
quite a few options (I could have left off my applications) - in fact 
it also saw the partition where I "double" backed up my iPhoto and 
iTunes files - I was worried that I didn't have enough room until I 
un-checked that drive :-) - it chugged away while I got ready for the 
day and finished in time for me to play for about 15 or 20 minutes 
before I had to go. I didn't have a lot of time to verify all went 
well, but it seems to have. I'll find out more tonight :-)

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Bryan Baker
President
Des Moines Macintosh Users Group
http://www.dmmug.org
president@dmmug.org