DZ, Rod, Alex, Wayne, Listas All G'day to All from this OSX noob too here...below... x4u-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote: > Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 23:25:54 -0400 > From: Alex > Subject: Re: [X4U] Using external HDD > To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user." > <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> > > On May 25, 2005, at 22:00, DZ-Jay wrote: > > how do I create a boot volume mirror? > By using one of several utilities which clone boot volumes. Carbon Copy > Cloner is a popular one, but you can also use Disk Utility -- see > <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=152350> May I suggest, that all do save lotz of time, heartache, etc. by taking the time to go thru these few pages, saving them to HD, bookmarking them for return later(whatever it takes), from well 'rounded Mac Guru Randy B. Singer at: <http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html> and altho the focus is not on tigger specificially, it most certainly does on OSX purty much across the board, and I'm sure will be found most helpful by most. imnsho Then, there's always the ever downloadable "Take Contol.." series of $5(iirc) .pdf books to consider. HTHs via condios Respectful of GURUs Bill Cornett cornettATgolDOTcom "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away."-Thoreau "Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."-W. Saroyan /