But I think older versions of OS X can clone the boot drive when using Disk Utility's RESTORE feature. And I believe Carbon Copy Cloner can as well.
Thanks for the cardbus Firewire adapter tip. OWC used to sell that one, but not any longer. I will keep an eye out for one, as such would be faster overall than USB, plus the USB cardbus adapters only give you USB2.0 speeds when running OS X, not when running OS 9. The Firewire card, from what you have said, would run in OS 9 too, which would be nice.
One of the Wallstreets I purchased came with a 500MHz G4 CPU accelerator, and Xfacto was used by the previous owner to install OS 10.4 Tiger on its 80GB internal IDE hard drive. So the OS is there and can be booted from.
Once again, the reason I purchased a Wallstreet was because the newer Lombards and Pismos lack the serial port & localTalk. I want to use the machine for many different tasks, including LocalTalking to my older machines that only have localTalk networking. I bought a second Wallstreet simply because it was a good deal. Plus I have two kids that love older OS 9 educational software that would run well on them. The only reason I started this thread was to determine the best way to clone a drive on these machines. Anyway, I appreciate your tips thus far.
Thanks for the cardbus Firewire adapter tip. OWC used to sell that one, but not any longer. I will keep an eye out for one, as such would be faster overall than USB, plus the USB cardbus adapters only give you USB2.0 speeds when running OS X, not when running OS 9. The Firewire card, from what you have said, would run in OS 9 too, which would be nice.
One of the Wallstreets I purchased came with a 500MHz G4 CPU accelerator, and Xfacto was used by the previous owner to install OS 10.4 Tiger on its 80GB internal IDE hard drive. So the OS is there and can be booted from.
Once again, the reason I purchased a Wallstreet was because the newer Lombards and Pismos lack the serial port & localTalk. I want to use the machine for many different tasks, including LocalTalking to my older machines that only have localTalk networking. I bought a second Wallstreet simply because it was a good deal. Plus I have two kids that love older OS 9 educational software that would run well on them. The only reason I started this thread was to determine the best way to clone a drive on these machines. Anyway, I appreciate your tips thus far.