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Move Panther to an external partition and install Tiger after RAM Upgarade - Help
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Hi,
I have decided to install Tiger after a upgradeing with an extra 1GB of ram. Currently running a powerbook 1.5Ghz 15" with 512GB & 10.3.9
I intend to continue to run Panther 10.3.9 on the PB for a while with the extra ram and then this is the plan. Buy a large, say 250GB external firewire harddrive and install Tiger on the PB and move Panther and it's contents to a partition on the external.
I don't want to keep and archive pf panther on the PB when Tiger is on - can I move this to the external? How do I do that? Or should I move the whole 10.3.9 to the external first (on a partition) and then do a clean install........or just archive and install on the PB then move the archive to the external .........or.........Back everything up on DVDs do a clean install and then bring in what I want from the DVDs?
Help very much appreciated thank you as I'm (clearly) not sure how to best do this.
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I would use SuperDuper! to clone the Panther system to the external hard disk and then you could do a Tiger clean install in the internal PowerBook hard disk.
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Yes - Thank you. Cloning it and then a clean install is exactly what I'll do. Great tip.
Do I need to create a partition on the external drive?
Can I boot from this clone if I choose to?
How do I import/migrate what I need into the clean install of Tiger?
Keeping Panther Because
1. I can.
2. Plenty of external disk space
3. a back up incase the install is problematic I can deal with it easily instead of having to deal with a bigger problem when work is demanding
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Originally Posted by jbleisure
Yes - Thank you. Cloning it and then a clean install is exactly what I'll do. Great tip.
Do I need to create a partition on the external drive?
Can I boot from this clone if I choose to?
How do I import/migrate what I need into the clean install of Tiger?
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1. No, but probably a good idea. Make it at least as big as the PB's drive.
2. Depends on the manufacturer's specs. Some Firewire drives boot; some don't.
3. Run the Migration Assistant from Tiger with the backup drive connected. Migration Asst. will ask you where your data is coming from -- choose the backup drive. It's really slick. It will even ask *what* you want transferred. I transferred everything from a desktop to powerbook (both running Tiger) with no problems.
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No, but probably a good idea
Feeling the need to be contradictory or is there something useful that might be a good alternative?
Make it at least as big as the PB's drive.
Doesn't it just need to be as big as (or slightly bigger than) the utilized space on the PB disc not the whole hard drive?
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