Leopard Migration
Dom Barnes
I've (finally) bought Leopard today (thank you payday!) and wanna do a
clean install on my Macbook Pro (I did a semi-migration from my
Powerbook when it died so wanna check everything is good).
I am backing up my MBP to a Disk Image using SuperDuper onto a
external 500GB WD MyBook drive.
Can anyone confirm if during the Leopard setup you can migrate your
data and settings over from a disk image, rather than a standard
disk?
If not, will I need to create a temporary user, then mount the disk
image, and run Migration Assistant from the Finder? And then get rid
of that user.
Dom
Drew Reece (Re:co)
SuperDuper! You don't get an opportunity to mount diskimages when
using the installer on DVD, but a bootable drive should be detected &
migrate-able.
Also if you find Leopard is bad you can still boot from the external
10.4.x copy.
You would otherwise need to run the migration assistant from the
Finder after rebooting into Leopard & mounting the disk image.
I confess to be confused by your statement …
> wanna do a clean install on my Macbook Pro (I did a semi-migration
> from my
> Powerbook when it died so wanna check everything is good).
… either you want to do a clean install OR you want to do a
migration? The only way to be certain (IMO) you have a clean Leopard
is to avoid using the migration assistant. If you have enough time
reinstall the apps instead of migrating, you will loose a lot of cruft.
If you are planning on using Migration Assistant from the disk image
at a later date, set up the mac with the same admin account names, so
you will have correct permissions etc.
HTH,
Re:co
Dom Barnes
upgrade or archive and install.
Last June when my hdd crashed I only managed a partial migration so
couldnt use my previos account. So some files probably have bad
permissions.
I didnt clone because I wanted to backup multiple laptops to the drive
and use it fr storage. I shouldve partitioned it I guess
So should I set up a new user with the same short name as my current
one?
I don't mind getting reinstalling apps.
Dom
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On 28 Jan 2008, at 15:15, "Drew Reece (Re:co)" <drew...@mac.com>
wrote:
Drew Reece (Re:co)
it won't create a new account at least for for admin.
I think partitioning could have helped but as long as the disk image
is a bootable clone you could restore it if needed.
When you same migrate folders, are you saying you will manually copy
them over? If this is the case set up any other users on the system too.
This is what I normally do unless I'm strapped for time, kinda helps
you find and understand what bits do what on your system. I do tend
to underestimate the power of Migration Assistant, I know others on
the list use it & have had success, I guess I'm set in my ways. :)
Re:co
Dom Barnes
Initially I set up a new user account with the same name/short name as
my old install. I ran the software updates, installed iLife and went
to run the Migration Assistant.
I opted to migrate both my accounts, but not applications. The only
issue was I had to sign out of my current account and into a different
one in order to migrate my old account into my new one with the same
name.
No big problem really. Apparently I'll have a few gig spare at the end
but I'm sure there is some chaff I can remove.
Cheers for the help Drew
Drew Reece (Re:co)
Sorry for the mistake, I figured it would run like the version on the
DVD, but it makes sense logging out to do the replacing.
Re:co