updating to Panther on new HD

[Chris Foote]

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>Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:45:50 -0500
>Subject: [X Newbies]
>From: Renita Williams <rmmwms at att.net.>
>Message-Id: <07CA2C1F-5FCE-11D8-A547-0003939617BE at att.net.>
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>I recently purchased a 160 g hard drive and would like to load Panther
>on it.  I currently have a 80 g hard drive loaded with  Jaguar, and a
>40 g loaded with OS9.
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>I would like to become familiar with Panther before abandoning Jaguar. 
>Will loading Panther on the new drive interfere with Jaguar or create
>any issues?
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>Thanks for any advice,
>
>Renita

This is actually a good way to do it.
1. Clone your Jaguar installation onto the new disk using Carbon Copy Cloner.
2. Do either an upgrade or a clean install of panther onto the new 
disk.  Many people recommend clean install, but I've done it both 
ways and the upgrade install is much easier. If you're having 
problems in Jaguar, the clean install is safer.
3. Set startup disk to the new disk and you should be in business. 
This way avoids the setup of user prefs that can be fairly 
time-consuming.
4. When you're happy with Panther (which will be quickly!), you can 
upgrade your other disk too. That gives you two installations, which 
is a big help if you ever have problems; you can switch to the other 
one and run disk utilities form it.
Chris
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