Re: Can I copy my boot partition to another HD???

[voss@i40s16.ira.uka.de (Stefan Voss)]

In article <1993Mar22.091210.15452@quando.quantum.de>, henigan@quando.quantum.de (Kevin Henigan) writes:
|> Hi
|> 
|> this might be a very stupid question but here we go.
|> 
|> When two SCSI HD's, are connected to my GS and I'm in the finder, when I
|> drag my boot partition to another partition of the same size the finder
|> does a full block copy for me, both partitions will be exactly identical.

Yes, that's o.k.

|> 
|> When the partitions are of different sizes then I need to select all the
|> folders in the Boot partition and drag them to the other partition.
   ^^^^^^^
   and files, of course. I suppose that's what you do.

|> 
|> Is it then possible to boot from this new partiton? or do I need to install
|> System 6.0 again?

If that 'backup' partition was properly formatted, then it should be 
bootable, but ... 

|>
|> I'm trying to increase the size of my Boot partition, I copy it to my other
|> HD, and then remove the original from the SCSI chain and boot, but I'm
|> getting a lot of errors, and it doesn't boot.

Well, the errors may be caused because you have removed the SCSI terminator 
together with your original HD. What is the sequence in your SCSI chain ?

Apple IIGS-----HD1-----HD2-with-terminator.
               ^^^     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                |              |
                |              |
            this HD may        |
            be removed.        |
                               |
                         this HD may *not* be
                         removed or the SCSI chain
                         will not be terminated.

Just another note: You don't need to remove your original HD, if you want the other HD to boot. Simply change the SCSI identification of your 'backup' HD.
Make it higher than your 'original' HD's SCSI ID. The HD that has the highest
SCSI ID will boot. To change the ID, look at the HD's back panel. There should
be a switch that you can set to a number from 0 to 7. 

|> 
|> System is : GS rom01, 2Meg Ram, TWGS 8/32, Apple SCSI card.
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If I remember correctly only the first partition of a HD is bootable with
an Apple SCSI card. With a RamFAST you can boot from every partition (if it's
formatted properly).

|> 
|> any ideas???

Hope mine are helpful.

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Stefan Voss
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