I was too impatient to wait for the weekend to start upgrading my laptop (PowerBook) hard drive. I got the new one formatted and partitioned and I dragged my system folder from one of the bootable partitions of the old hard drive.
Over the weekend I get to copy all the old partitions’ contents to the new ones of the same name and then remap aliases so the OS doesn’t keep looking for the copies that are on the old drive.
But that was entirely too much for one evening, all I copied was the System Folder. So I’ve got the old hard drive in an expansion bay where the battery usually goes. I’m booted from the new hard drive but running browser and email and other applications from the old one (they aren’t copied to the new one yet).
My desktop looks weird as hell: I’m using the same partition names for the new drive’s partitions as I used on the old drive, so everything is twins. Or clones. Half-cloned clones, to be sure.
I probably shouldn’t be, but I’m surprised that it works so seamlessly in hybrid half-copied mode like this!
