easy way to backup to repartition your drive

[David Hacker]

I just got a new eMac and I had configured it all and I really didn't 
want to wipe the hard drive clean and reinstall from scratch, so I got 
to thinking of other ways.

An easy way to back up your partition, if you have an external drive or 
another hard drive, is to start up from the OS X install CD and open 
Disk Utility.  Then create a new disk image on the external drive that 
is big enough to hold the contents of your current OS X installation.  
Then you can use the restore function, by putting your hard drive as 
the source image and the disk image you created as the destination.  
Then you can reformat the internal hard drive and make your smaller 
partition and free space for linux.  Once you have your new partiton 
just go back to restore and put the disk image in the image section and 
your new blank hard drive partition as the destination.  Once it's done 
just reboot and everything is just as you left it, but on a smaller 
partiton.
I just thought it might be something helpful to put on the new FAQ page 
that Clint is working on.
Hope this helps some of you to save time.

BTW, I just got Gentoo up and running on my new eMac 1.25 GHz with the 
ATI Radeon 9200 and the video wasn't a problem at all with the 2.6.4 
kernel.  I am going to try YDL but I have heard that there are a lot of 
problems with it for some reason on this new model eMac.


David C. Hacker, DVM
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