balm or poison

Don’t try to follow the previous post unless you want to end up in a neverending (sic!) series of re-installs, unrecognized harddisks at start-up and a few kernel-panics!

At this moment I know of NO safe way to use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a bootable clone of my HD. Here is the only way I managed to make a bootable copy :

- before you start, click on the target-partition of the external HD and use File/Get Info and uncheck under Ownership & Permissions the box Ignore ownership on this volume
– this might be enough for you but I had to use DiskUtility to Erase the externet HD-partition.
– then follow the previous post (that is do sudo open on CCC and then proceed as usual BUT make sure in your prefernces only the box Make Bootable is checked and certainly no syncing-options!)

A bit too drastic for me. Its a bit like : make a DMG of your MacintoshHD and do a restore on an empty external partition. It seems that Tiger and Panther have very different DNA-samples bringing a lot of excellent free- and shareware developers near a nervous breakdown. Have the Apple-people ever heard of something like backwards compatibility? Anyway, I’m not going to try making another backup again until Mike Bombich has released a Tiger-version of CCC!

Also, don’t try to follow the suggestions of my Tracks post. It certainly is not enough to get tracks running under Tiger (and probably also not under Panther as at the time I did a strange mix of following this path and doing some manual installs using the Hivelogic page. This time, I got strange errors coming from the Ruby-MySQL dialogue. I’m not going to try installing MySQL, PHP and Tracks before someone like Marc Lyanage tells that it is safe to use the Panther-packages under Tiger!

So, for the moment I’m just going to use my minimal system (Tiger+Xcode Tools+TeX (following the instructions from this page )+some excellent free and shareware like DevonThink , Pod2Go , VoodooPad , SubEthaEdit , QuickSilver , Transmit and NetNewsWire ) until the experts have tamed Tiger. Meanwhile, I’ll just confine myself to the Dashboard-Kintergarten !