Re: Easy steps to re-install clone?

Cap'n <captain.black@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Well, as you've probably seen Google Groups has been down the last two
days - very frustrating!

I found a kind of answer to the problems I was having on the CCC
forums. It seems (sometimes?) a CCC clone won't copy login usernames/
passwords, so it wasn't that either was incorrect, just that they
weren't there at all... The answer was to boot from the clone on the
external FW drive while holding down Cmnd+S for single-user mode, and
then to enter 'a bunch of Unix-y stuff', which then continued to boot
to the setup screen to allow 'fresh' entry of name/address details etc
for the clone - including username/password. Anyway, after *that* it
was supposed to complete booting from the clone so I could do all the
reverse-CCC stuff to get it back onto the iMac. Except it didn't. It
would hang during the end of the boot process. I re-did the Unix-y
stuff a few times, but it always hung.

Blimey, I've never had to do that!

I decided then to go for Andy's 'option b' - a clean Tiger install,
then bring stuff over via Migration Assistant. Started off fine. I got
a nice fresh tiger on the iMac, then started the Migration Assistant -
trouble was it wouldn't 'see' the external drive! After much tearing-
of-hair I read somewhere that you have to bring the target OS *up to*
the same level as that of the backup/drive you're bringing the setting/
docs/etc from. Instead of using Software Update I plugged in a FW
cable to bring over a Combo .pkg (-> 10.4.9) from my iBook to the
iMac. Mistake! Got to about 95% copied &...froze - followed by a Kernel
Panic. Switched iMac off then on & tried again. Tried again & got the
same thing. Bugger. FW & Kernel Panics...seem to go hand in hand quite
often... Anyway, left it there for now (had to come to work!!). Will
burn the .pkg to a disc or just d/l it with software update. It's
never easy, is it?

(N.B. some of the above may be misremembered - my brain is getting
addled with this stuff!)

I think you must have got your software from Zoara! :-(

FWIW, did you use 'clean' install' or 'install and archive'?

--
Andy Hewitt
<http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/>
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