esmith1977 Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Looking at what the best method is for system drive duplication... Carbon Copy Cloner? Disk Utility? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10145-system-drive-duplication/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlepr Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Disk Utilty does it for me. I have backup images of my 10.4.3 and of my 10.4.4. With all this trouble when patches don't take as expected, it helps when having to start from scratch. This way I avoid having to install 10.4.3 and then having to patch it to 10.4.4. Now All I need is to get this damn 10.4.5 to work. Once I get it running I plan on making a .dmg of that too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10145-system-drive-duplication/#findComment-63380 Share on other sites More sharing options...
esmith1977 Posted February 25, 2006 Author Share Posted February 25, 2006 Does the Disk Utility method make a bootable partition? What about drives that are connected via SATA? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10145-system-drive-duplication/#findComment-63389 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubhead Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Looking at what the best method is for system drive duplication... Carbon Copy Cloner? Disk Utility? SuperDuper! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10145-system-drive-duplication/#findComment-63407 Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlepr Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Fdisk is what makes a partition bootable or not. The .dmg will boot as long as you flag that partition. You must have a bootable partition to begin with. Once you have one then it 's all booting in -s mode and typing fdisk -e /dev/rdiskx (x being the disk if you have more than one). Remember that partitions start counting from zero. Once in fdisk mode you can the type "print" to see the partitions on any given drive. Here you will see partition being counted starting with 1. The patition with an "*" next to it is the bootable partition. To change to like say partition 2, you would type "flag 2" "enter" and "quit" to save the changes. Remember that you should have an image on partition 2 for it to load once the flag has been set. You would normally restore the image from another partition using disk utility/restore. If you don't have anything on partition 2, it will complain about not having anything to load. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10145-system-drive-duplication/#findComment-63410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
esmith1977 Posted February 25, 2006 Author Share Posted February 25, 2006 I have read that formatting using Disk Utility from 10.4.4 creates unbootable drives. How can this problem be fixed? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10145-system-drive-duplication/#findComment-63413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlepr Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Get your hands on the 81111a dvd image .dmg and patch it with jas 4.2b and then make an iso. Burn it and use the disk utilty from that to make your partitions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10145-system-drive-duplication/#findComment-63466 Share on other sites More sharing options...
esmith1977 Posted February 26, 2006 Author Share Posted February 26, 2006 Where can one get the "jas 4.2 b" patch? the pirates don't seem to have it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10145-system-drive-duplication/#findComment-63700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quixos Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 you should have a small 6 or 7 gig partition set up with an emergency osX, you can then back up, or restore partitions or dmgs from there. when you restore, DON'T FORMAT. formatting destroys the mbr. make visible ALL files and folders, drag them to the trash, empty trash, then restore from your dmg or partition. that way your mbr isn't screwed up. probably obvious, and uncalled for advice, but it might be useful. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10145-system-drive-duplication/#findComment-63713 Share on other sites More sharing options...
esmith1977 Posted February 26, 2006 Author Share Posted February 26, 2006 For now one should simply format under 10.4.3 for anything... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10145-system-drive-duplication/#findComment-63724 Share on other sites More sharing options...
10kelvin Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 This worked for me; rm -rf /Volumes/amd64/* ditto -rsrcFork /Applications /Volumes/amd64/Applications ditto -rsrcFork /Developer /Volumes/amd64/Developer ditto -rsrcFork /Library /Volumes/amd64/Library ditto -rsrcFork /System /Volumes/amd64/System ditto -rsrcFork /cores /Volumes/amd64/cores ditto -rsrcFork /private /Volumes/amd64/private ditto -rsrcFork /usr /Volumes/amd64/usr ditto -rsrcFork /bin /Volumes/amd64/bin ditto -rsrcFork /sbin /Volumes/amd64/sbin ditto -rsrcFork /.hidden /Volumes/amd64/.hidden cd /Volumes/amd64 mkdir Volumes Network dev ln -s private/etc etc ln -s private/tmp tmp ln -s private/var var rm var/db/.AppleSetupDone rm var/db/netinfo/local.nidb cp /mach_kernel.all_amd /Volumes/amd64/mach_kernel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10145-system-drive-duplication/#findComment-63768 Share on other sites More sharing options...
felixaa Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 Easy method with GHOST Create Virtual Machine in VMWare Guest operating system: Other Version: MSDOS In Disk section ... If you have MacOSX installed in a VMWare .vmdk and Have another HDD for a native install Use an existing virtual disk then browser for your installed .vmdk In the created vmware Tab ... go to Edit virtual machine settings --- Add > Hard Disk > Use a physical Disk and chose disk or partition ( Be careful with no choose wrong drive or partition At your own risk !! You can do any harddrive combination Finally boot the VMWare Machine with MSDOS Startup Floppy or Cd Disk. .. launch ghost.exe ( ghost 2003 in my case) .. copy partition to ... or where ever you want. 40 min for 5 Gbyte in my system. Thanks. Bye PD: I use this method for My native install without Boot problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10145-system-drive-duplication/#findComment-65894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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