Snow Leopard 101: For Smart People Only

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Mike Allen] “What is the best and least expensive way to properly clone the system drive.”

Carbon Copy Cloner.

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[Mark Petereit]

[Eugene Reynolds] “could you detail how to do a clean ground up install of the OS without losing plugins and other apps? ”

[David Roth Weiss] “A legitimate question Eugene, and I’m sure the answer is going to sound painful, but honestly, a ground-up installation means that you should also reinstall all apps and all plugins from the ground-up as well. Just bite the bullet, and you’ll be happy you did. Remember, you can always boot to your clone if there’s something you really need while you’re in transition.”

If I buy the FCP3 upgrade package, are the included disks full install disks? In other words, if I pull my old boot drive completely and replace it with a new Velociraptor drive, do a clean install of Snow Leopard, will I be able to do a clean install of FCP3? Or is the installer going to want to see FCP2 on my boot drive before it upgrades me to FCP3?

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[Michael Sacci]

I have Windows authorization on speed dial #4, it seems like every time I do something different Windows needs to be reauthorized. I run XP via VMware but the XP is on the BootCamp partition, well the other day I needed to try something that the tech guy wanted me to boot into XP, so set BootCamp to be the start up, the copy of XP is not authorized, do you want to authorize now. Crap,

I have never been able to move/cone the XP partition and have it work without authorization. I’m thinking about installing Win 7 just for the flexibility. I don’t run much on XP anyway.

[David Roth weiss]

[Mark Petereit] “if I pull my old boot drive completely and replace it with a new Velociraptor drive, do a clean install of Snow Leopard, will I be able to do a clean install of FCP3? Or is the installer going to want to see FCP2 on my boot drive before it upgrades me to FCP3?
“

FCS3 will ask that you type in your old serial number, but other than that it’s essentially a fresh install from the new disks.

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[Mark Petereit]

Just one more thing to think about. I plan on wiping out a spare external drive and using it to create disk images of all my install disks. According to Torrey Loomis at Silverado, it cuts install time of FCP3 from 4 hours to about 24 minutes.

Yeah, it probably takes as long (or longer) to create the images, but it’ll pay off if I ever have to reinstall. And it never hurts to have a backup of your install disks.

[David Roth weiss]

[Christopher Wright] “I’ll be the guinea pig!
I’ll still make a bootable OS 10.5.8 clone just in case, but using your own sound logic, I will still have a usable back up just in case.”

Cloning first doesn’t count Christopher… In order to really be a guinea pig you have be really stupid and put yourself and your entire company out there on the bleeding edge.

And, there’s really no reason for you to be a guinea pig anyway, there are already plenty of lemmings out there ready to jump off that cliff — no reason we need to lose any more varmints than absolutely necessary.

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[Warren Eig]

Well I went out full hog when 10.6 came out some time back and installed it right over the old OS X. Didn’t even clone or back up. Just did a “system update.” How’s that for stupid.

Now I’m testing and using the new, not even mentioned or released OS X 10.7 with the new FCS 4.5 with native 32K and super HD running on a Kona 6 PCIze card.

It works great.

The realtime 3D previews on the new 3D Panny are a blessing in disguise. I would have never thought virtual reality editing could be this easy or this fun!!!

(please note 3 count ’em 3 exclamation marks! Doh 4)

Warren

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[Matt Devino]

Here’s another question for you, any way to create a second partition on my boot drive and clone the 1st partition to the new partition, and install Snow Leopard on only one of the partitions? Is this just crazy talk?

[Chris Poisson]

DR, you should have titled this “for dumb people.” Smart people already know this.

Have as good a day as you can.

[Michael Gissing]

I am going one step further and replacing my whole setup with a brand new MacPro with Snow Leopard. The old G5 will be able to be accessed via the ethernet to reinstall software and files that are on the old drive. My software all is backed up on a NAS unit as well. Ditto all old project files and library of logos etc.

In the past I have always upgraded by buying a new drive and having two boot drives in the box so I can always alt/boot the old version on startup.