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Hey
I have a PPC G5 tower which is installed with Leopard. Unfortunately I've misplaced my Leopard disk, though I still have my Tiger disk.
Using a Finnix disk I've taken a dd clone of the whole drive as a backup, but my concern is whether this would be of any use should I put in a larger drive (there are stories of restores to larger drives keeping the original size).
So my question is, would it be possible to take a file backup of the main partition and reinstate these files following an install of Tiger?
i.e. Install Tiger, set fresh partition info, overwrite Tiger with Leopard.
Thanks for any advice.
I have a PPC G5 tower which is installed with Leopard. Unfortunately I've misplaced my Leopard disk, though I still have my Tiger disk.
Using a Finnix disk I've taken a dd clone of the whole drive as a backup, but my concern is whether this would be of any use should I put in a larger drive (there are stories of restores to larger drives keeping the original size).
So my question is, would it be possible to take a file backup of the main partition and reinstate these files following an install of Tiger?
i.e. Install Tiger, set fresh partition info, overwrite Tiger with Leopard.
Thanks for any advice.