[Macpartners] Apple Software Restore/Carbon Copy Cloner problems on cloning Beige G3s...

[John C. Welch]

On 5/21/04 9:21 AM, "Kerem B Limon" <kerem.limon at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> I have tried (details later) all of Disk Copy 6.5b13 cloning, Apple
> Software Restore 2.2.5, Carbon Copy Cloner 2.3, all to no avail. I can
> either not get the restore/clone from my image to actually take place, or
> when it (allegedly) does, to get the Mac to actually boot past the flashing
> question mark/floppy icon (searching for a bootable device, that is). When
> are we going to get a decent, *fast* cloning solution for the Mac, a la
> DriveImage or Ghost?!

There's several remote install applications, but I doubt that's the problem.
The problem is most likely with your hardware setup. You are of course
installing  into a partition which is no larger than 8GB AND is the first
partition on the boot disk, right?

I ask because you don't mention how the drive is partitioned.

john

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