I previously wrote about my intention to backup the iBook disk onto a bootable firewire disc. (2005-04-25 Gadgets)
I bought a 60G firewire disk, started the disk utility, partitioned it into two halves of 30G each, and then installed Psync and Carbon Copy Cloner, and proceeded as instructed on the original Nerd Vittles page.
The first time it took forever and got stuck in the end. I aborted it, tried to boot from it, but no go. I cloned it *again* and this time it took 35 minutes and finished correctly. Cool! Now I just have to test booting from it...
I tried several times, pressing the ⌥<*code> key – to no avail. It just kept listing my original “Macintosh HD”. Until I discovered that the combo for booting from an external drive is ⌥⇧⌘⌫ – heh, that gives me Emacs feelings! ¹*
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