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

[Rod Ragner]

On May 4, 2005, at 1:25 PM, Bryan Baker wrote:
> 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.

Yes, the feature of Disk Utility with which one can clone a disk  
partition is not obvious, but like you, I figured it out rather quickly.

I cloned the primary Mac OS X 10.3.9 partition on my Dual 2GHz Power  
Mac G5 to a secondary partition on the same drive (after archiving  
some large files and stuff that made the primary too large to fit on  
the secondary. I too booted from the cloned partition, which booted  
fine (until after installing Tiger).

Note that prior to cloning partitions, I did a full backup of the  
primary partition onto an external FireWire drive using CCC. In the  
future I will try using Disk Utility to clone onto an external drive,  
since CCC does not currently support Tiger. I might use SuperDuper!.

One odd thing is that Disk Utility changed the name of the cloned  
partition to the name of the partition being cloned. I changed the  
name back before rebooting.

> 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 :-)

Once I had cloned my primary Mac OS X 10.3.9 partition on my PM, I  
used it to Migrate (after an Erase and Install) to my 500MHz Titanium  
PowerBook G4. Strangely, after installing Tiger and Migrating my  
system and users (but not applications and folders) from the PM via  
FireWire, my AirPort would not connect! The name and password  
appeared to be there, but would not work until I retyped the same  
password, after which it worked fine. I did not have this problem  
when I Migrated from the cloned partition on the PM to the primary  
partition on the PM after doing an Erase and Install. Strange.

Both machines, however, required that I re-enter my MediaCom e-mail  
passwords before I could send messages!

After installing Tiger on the PM, I tried to reboot into Panther on  
the secondary partition, but it hung at the login window with an  
Alert panel behind it, which I could not access, because the computer  
hand hung (for the first time ever) with the mouse cursor frozen in  
the upper left corner and the name of some Bluetooth application in  
the menu bar (which should not be present when the login panel is  
displayed). This is even more strange since I have never turned on  
Bluetooth, since I have no Bluetooth devices (but BTO'd it anyway for  
the future).

Otherwise, everything seems to be working perfectly and I have not  
had any trouble of any kind since.