Copying system drive to another one so that it could be used as a boot disk

[incognito]

When I bought my Mac, 10 GB was all you needed. Now, it's barely
sufficient to write an e-mail.

I bought a 120 GB drive and want to copy the system and all my 10 GB
content to it so that I am not that limited in disk space (provided
that Applications reside on the system drive and hotos from iPhotos as
well as Tunes from iTunes are in there).

I tried using the cp comment (cp -i -p / /Volumes/BigDrive), but that
didn't work out. Is there another way for me to do this?

Thanks.

[Mike]

incognito wrote:

>When I bought my Mac, 10 GB was all you needed. Now, it's barely
>sufficient to write an e-mail.

Heh! Remember when 100MB drives were _huge_? Guess not.
How about when a 5MB drive was bigger than a garbage can lid?

>I tried using the cp comment (cp -i -p / /Volumes/BigDrive), but that
>didn't work out. Is there another way for me to do this?

Yep, that doesn't work. Look for something called
Carbon Copy Cloner. It'll do the trick (I believe).

[Ralph Martin]

Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:00:27 +0100
Message-ID: <ralph-B80ED1.09002724072003@news.swman.net.uk>

In article <7be433cb.0307231504.2b175a12@posting.google.com >,
[email]incognito-3@excite.com[/email] (incognito) wrote:

> When I bought my Mac, 10 GB was all you needed. Now, it's barely
> sufficient to write an e-mail.
>
> I bought a 120 GB drive and want to copy the system and all my 10 GB
> content to it so that I am not that limited in disk space (provided
> that Applications reside on the system drive and hotos from iPhotos as
> well as Tunes from iTunes are in there).
>
> I tried using the cp comment (cp -i -p / /Volumes/BigDrive), but that
> didn't work out. Is there another way for me to do this?

yes. use asr (apple system restore). see man asr for details, but its
pretty striaghtforward to do this.

Ralph

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