Is there a Unix command that I could issue in the Terminal to copy my
internal (bootable) hard drive to an external (firewire) hard drive
that would also be bootable? I just upgraded to Panther (10.3.2) and
am using Retrospect Express (latest version) to copy one drive to
another. This worked fine under Jaguar, but is unbearably slow under
Panther. Don't the Unix people have some good solution to this
problem?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

In article <ba9cf653.0401160643.3b9fad2c@posting.google.com >, Paul E.
MacNeil <macneil_pe@mercer.edu> wrote:

> Is there a Unix command that I could issue in the Terminal to copy my
> internal (bootable) hard drive to an external (firewire) hard drive
> that would also be bootable? I just upgraded to Panther (10.3.2) and
> am using Retrospect Express (latest version) to copy one drive to
> another. This worked fine under Jaguar, but is unbearably slow under
> Panther. Don't the Unix people have some good solution to this
> problem?

asr

Regards,
rob.

in article ba9cf653.0401160643.3b9fad2c@posting.google.com, Paul E. MacNeil
at macneil_pe@mercer.edu wrote on 1/16/04 6:43 AM:

> Is there a Unix command that I could issue in the Terminal to copy my
> internal (bootable) hard drive to an external (firewire) hard drive
> that would also be bootable? I just upgraded to Panther (10.3.2) and
> am using Retrospect Express (latest version) to copy one drive to
> another. This worked fine under Jaguar, but is unbearably slow under
> Panther. Don't the Unix people have some good solution to this
> problem?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul

Just install OS X onto your firewire drive and when you want to boot up with
it, restart your computer, have the drive on and hold the "T" key down and
you will see the little firewire icon appear on the mac. Keep the key down
till you are fully started up with the firewire drive. Your firewire drive
is then the system disk.


Kind Regards,
Nathaniel
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reply to: nat at flikworld(dot)com

"simples_it******.it" <simples_it******.it> wrote in message news:<160120041722555358%simples_it******.it>...
> In article <ba9cf653.0401160643.3b9fad2c@posting.google.com >, Paul E.
> MacNeil <macneil_pe@mercer.edu> wrote:
>
> > Is there a Unix command that I could issue in the Terminal to copy my
> > internal (bootable) hard drive to an external (firewire) hard drive
> > that would also be bootable? I just upgraded to Panther (10.3.2) and
> > am using Retrospect Express (latest version) to copy one drive to
> > another. This worked fine under Jaguar, but is unbearably slow under
> > Panther. Don't the Unix people have some good solution to this
> > problem?
>
> asr
>
> Regards,
> rob.

Thanks, Rob!

Paul

Nathaniel Flick <nat@flikworld.com> wrote in message news:<BC2EE07D.4251%nat@flikworld.com>...
> in article ba9cf653.0401160643.3b9fad2c@posting.google.com, Paul E. MacNeil
> at macneil_pe@mercer.edu wrote on 1/16/04 6:43 AM:
>
> > Is there a Unix command that I could issue in the Terminal to copy my
> > internal (bootable) hard drive to an external (firewire) hard drive
> > that would also be bootable? I just upgraded to Panther (10.3.2) and
> > am using Retrospect Express (latest version) to copy one drive to
> > another. This worked fine under Jaguar, but is unbearably slow under
> > Panther. Don't the Unix people have some good solution to this
> > problem?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Paul
>
> Just install OS X onto your firewire drive and when you want to boot up with
> it, restart your computer, have the drive on and hold the "T" key down and
> you will see the little firewire icon appear on the mac. Keep the key down
> till you are fully started up with the firewire drive. Your firewire drive
> is then the system disk.
>
>
> Kind Regards,
> Nathaniel

Thanks,Nathaniel!

Paul

Hi Paul,

I thought Nathaniel's answer didn't quite cover your question so
here's my stab at it.

There is a unix command called dd of which you can get the details by
typing man dd into the terminal. However it may not help you in this
instance as it requires that the destination drive has the same number
or greater of spindles and sectors as the source drive. Also i don't
know how well it'll work with HFS+'s journaling switched on. Should
survive but no guarantees.

Nathaniels option of holding down T won't work as it'll put the Mac
into firewire target mode. ie. The Mac itself becomes like a firewire
hard drive which can be connected to another Mac as a second disk. Not
what you are wanting. Holding down Option-Command-Shift-Delete keys
together will bypass the default system drive and search for
alertnatives. Here's the official apple page on the subject of boot
options. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459

Use this instead http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html.
I've used Carbon Copy Cloner to image a live mac and best of all its
free. Well not exactly, donationware so if you like it make a donation
to developer.

Good luck
Michael



macneil_pe@mercer.edu (Paul E. MacNeil) wrote in message news:<ba9cf653.0401200633.7f4e5a8b@posting.google. com>...
> Nathaniel Flick <nat@flikworld.com> wrote in message news:<BC2EE07D.4251%nat@flikworld.com>...
> > in article ba9cf653.0401160643.3b9fad2c@posting.google.com, Paul E. MacNeil
> > at macneil_pe@mercer.edu wrote on 1/16/04 6:43 AM:
> >
> > > Is there a Unix command that I could issue in the Terminal to copy my
> > > internal (bootable) hard drive to an external (firewire) hard drive
> > > that would also be bootable? I just upgraded to Panther (10.3.2) and
> > > am using Retrospect Express (latest version) to copy one drive to
> > > another. This worked fine under Jaguar, but is unbearably slow under
> > > Panther. Don't the Unix people have some good solution to this
> > > problem?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Paul
> >
> > Just install OS X onto your firewire drive and when you want to boot up with
> > it, restart your computer, have the drive on and hold the "T" key down and
> > you will see the little firewire icon appear on the mac. Keep the key down
> > till you are fully started up with the firewire drive. Your firewire drive
> > is then the system disk.
> >
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Nathaniel
>
> Thanks,Nathaniel!
>
> Paul

Is Disk Utility such a horrendous solution? It takes a while for Restore
to copy the disk but it makes a verbatim, bootable image on my Firewire
drive.

Alan Fraser
http://myducksoup.com/blog/blogger.shtml