Upgrading hard disks in iMac

[Diego Barros]

Richard,

The disk in the iMac is formatted in Linux (main partition being ext3).

I could copy stuff from the iMac on to another machines hard drive, if 
that would help. I could do that to a Windows machine using the LAN.

Cheers,
Diego



Richard D. Gill wrote:

>>I am going to upgrade the hard disk in my iMac (2001 model) to a larger
>>one. Is there a way I can take everything that I currently have on the
>>existing hard disk and put it into the new one? I only have YDL 3
>>installed on that drive. I would like to be able to copy everything, 
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>>applications, settings, data etc. to the new one.
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>Diego, how are the disks formatted? apple or linux?
>Do you have a spare external drive so you can copy stuff to a
>safe place and put it back later?
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>If the partitions of interest are hfs, and if you have a mac osx
>bootable cdrom, and if you have an external hard drive, you could like me
>use the free OS X program "Carbon Copy Cloner" which can copy an entire
>mac os partition, preserving everything... And that can be done because
>mac osx is basically unix and in unix this kind of thing is more or
>less easy...
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>I'll be interested to hear how to do this "under linux".
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>Richard
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Cheers,
Diego