Well it all started when our old white 900MHz G3 iBook OS 10.4.x PATA HDD died, so in the interim I thought I'd install Leo 10.5.x on my mid/late-2007 MBPro which I had installed a 128GB SSD some six months ago.
Leo 10.5 is needed so that we can still use our old Mac serial AppleTalk only networked HP Laserjet 4ML, as 10.5 is the last OS X to support AppleTalk.
I used DU to create a new volume for 10.5 on the SSD, but it would only allow a 8GB partition, even though the drive had other available room. Strange.
Got Leo 10.5 installed on it, but the volume was too small to run the updaters to get to 10.5.8, and the print server didn't setup or work properly, and was painfully SLOOOOW when it did print - like over a minute to just spool a few lines of text!! Strange for a much faster 2.2GHz Mac and with an SSD installed.
So I thought I'd pickup a USB 2.5" SATA HDD enclosure and use the old MBPro's 160GB drive.
First mistake was to purchase an unknown brand from a local PC store, specifically and as a warning, a 'Velocity Elite Series' 2.5in Enclosure.
With a few hassles, I got Leo installed on it, and then wasted 2 1/2 days attempting to get the &^%$#& thing to even boot properly without getting the 'you must restart' message and sometimes with a kernel panic.
WTH***!!! In frustration, I pulled the HDD out of it and dropped it into my NewerTech Quad Dock, and it booted and ran fine with both FW and USB connections. Stupid Velocity Elite Series enclosure, and I even tried a new USB cable, apparently a known problem.
So the MBPro is running happily and all the print server networking is working, and fast. But just a wee bit bulky setup until I can get a proper known good brand working enclosure.
But hey, I've got a spare Kingston 16GB Metal-Cased USB Drive (DTSE9) GUID formatted I could use right as a Leo 10.5.8 Boot volume.
So I used CCC to clone the 2.5" HDD 10.5.8 to it, and it took just over an expected hour to complete, but it will not boot, and I've never had any cloning problems with CCC.
When checking the two volumes, the flash drive only has just under 7GB used, yet the HDD has just over 11GB. What gives??
And yes I run CCC several times, but no change.
I cannot find any CCC reference as to why CCC won't create a proper bootable clone.
So does anyone have a suggestion or know what's wrong or why?
Leo 10.5 is needed so that we can still use our old Mac serial AppleTalk only networked HP Laserjet 4ML, as 10.5 is the last OS X to support AppleTalk.
I used DU to create a new volume for 10.5 on the SSD, but it would only allow a 8GB partition, even though the drive had other available room. Strange.
Got Leo 10.5 installed on it, but the volume was too small to run the updaters to get to 10.5.8, and the print server didn't setup or work properly, and was painfully SLOOOOW when it did print - like over a minute to just spool a few lines of text!! Strange for a much faster 2.2GHz Mac and with an SSD installed.
So I thought I'd pickup a USB 2.5" SATA HDD enclosure and use the old MBPro's 160GB drive.
First mistake was to purchase an unknown brand from a local PC store, specifically and as a warning, a 'Velocity Elite Series' 2.5in Enclosure.
With a few hassles, I got Leo installed on it, and then wasted 2 1/2 days attempting to get the &^%$#& thing to even boot properly without getting the 'you must restart' message and sometimes with a kernel panic.
WTH***!!! In frustration, I pulled the HDD out of it and dropped it into my NewerTech Quad Dock, and it booted and ran fine with both FW and USB connections. Stupid Velocity Elite Series enclosure, and I even tried a new USB cable, apparently a known problem.
So the MBPro is running happily and all the print server networking is working, and fast. But just a wee bit bulky setup until I can get a proper known good brand working enclosure.
But hey, I've got a spare Kingston 16GB Metal-Cased USB Drive (DTSE9) GUID formatted I could use right as a Leo 10.5.8 Boot volume.
So I used CCC to clone the 2.5" HDD 10.5.8 to it, and it took just over an expected hour to complete, but it will not boot, and I've never had any cloning problems with CCC.
When checking the two volumes, the flash drive only has just under 7GB used, yet the HDD has just over 11GB. What gives??
And yes I run CCC several times, but no change.
I cannot find any CCC reference as to why CCC won't create a proper bootable clone.
So does anyone have a suggestion or know what's wrong or why?