{"id":61,"date":"2003-11-02T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-02T08:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Apple\/OSX\/upgrading1.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"upgrading1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2003\/11\/02\/upgrading1\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite my previous plans<\/a>, I found myself in CompUSA tonight, and ended up with my own shiny new copy of Panther. If I ever get it installed, I’ll post a few comments.<\/p>\n

So far, this isn’t the cake walk I expected. The problem isn’t Panther, it’s backups. I thought this would be a good time to start fresh, so I planned to format and install from scratch. This, of course, requires backups. I’m pretty sure the only thing I need to backup is my home directory. My original plan was to pick up a firewire cable, boot my Powerbook into firewire harddrive mode, attach it to my PC,<\/span> and copy my Home dir. While at CompUSA, however, I decided I could just burn a CD to make my backups, so I didn’t get the firewire cable.<\/p>\n

Oops. Seems my home dir was over 6 gigs. That’s alot of CDs. So I thought I’d try Disk Copy, make an image, and copy it over my network. But still alot of data. I decided to omit my Download directory. This is where things started to get unpleasant. You can drag-drop a folder onto Disk Copy to create an image from that folder, but you can drop multiple files. This means if you want to make an image of everyhing in a folder except<\/em> a certain folder(s), you must either move the folder you wish to omit before drag-droping, or create the whole image and then remove the offending folder. I tried to create a blank image to drop my files into, but it didn’t work. (I later noticed you have to specify an image size, default is only 10meg.) <\/p>\n

I eventually gave up on Disk Copy. I tried connecting to my Windows PC,<\/span> and directly copying my home folder. After churning for a few, it told me it would take 3 hours. That increased to 6. I aborted. Later, I found that this was ludicrous… it was initially copying a bunch of small files, which gives poor performance, and extrapolating.<\/p>\n

In the end (a couple hours after I started), I ended up getting everything copied, I think (hope!); I copied the bigger files, like music and downloads, directly, and made a disk image for everything else (what a pain). Once this was all done, I took out some extra insurance by exporting settings from a few imporant programs (Firebird bookmarks, NetNewsWire subscriptions, etc), and making an additional disk image of my \/Users\/jclark\/Library\/Mail.<\/p>\n

Just to make this even more fun (for some definition of fun), I’ve decided to partition my drive<\/a> fairly aggressively (OS, Applications, Users, swap). I’m authoring this entry from my Win2K PC while Panther merrily installs. More to come.<\/p>\n

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