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If your drive is already failing, it's kind of too late to do this kind of thing, but a few comments:
- Plan A won't work, because you can't run SD! from Terminal when booted from the DVD. - Plan C won't work, because you shouldn't copy Tiger from Leopard That leaves B. Not quite sure why you're running SD! off a flash drive, but that's what I'd try. But there's also Plan D: - Get a FireWire case that would normally work as a boot drive - Install Tiger or Leopard, clean, to the external - When prompted to "migrate from another Mac", point it at the internal drive. That'll bring in your files and applications and avoid copying the OS, so at least you'd be copying a minimal amount of data - Swap the drives Yes, there's no SD! involved there, but since it copies as little as possible it might be your best shot. Plan E would be the same as C except running Tiger, not Leopard. That'd be OK, too. Finally: make sure you're using "Apple Partition Map" as your partition scheme, since you have a Power PC Mac.
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Thanks for the advice!
> Plan A won't work, because you can't run SD! from Terminal when booted from the DVD. If this is a kext issue, I remember at some point in the past I was able to start apps on the internal hard drive from a DVD boot, after doing some kextloads... a hassle, but it worked. Alternatively, would Disk Utility's "Restore" function copy the external drive to the internal (yielding a bootable internal drive)? > Plan C won't work, because you shouldn't copy Tiger from Leopard > Plan E would be the same as C except running Tiger, not Leopard. That'd be OK, too. Hmm, this is a surprise. I thought SD! would just make an exact copy from one drive to the other -- why does it matter which OS version SD! happens to be running on? |
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Without a read/write user folder, running SD! is really not going to work from the DVD, specific kexts or not. Certainly, users who aren't terribly sophisticated shouldn't try this.
The file system in Leopard is significantly different than Tiger's, has much more metadata included, etc. While copying from Leopard might work, it also might generate structures, EAs, etc that could cause issues: remember we're copying file-by-file, with system calls, and those calls will be Leopard calls, not Tiger. It's a generally bad idea.
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