Here's what I want to end up with:
MBP 2010 with 1Tb internal drive with two 500 G partitions:
p1 = Current Snow Leopard upgraded to Lion
p2 = Current Snow Leopard (not upgraded to Lion)
What I have currently:
In Use:
MBP wth Snow Leopard running on internal 500G drive
two external firewire 500G drives which I use to clone the MBP Snow
Leopard for backup (I alternate them)
In waiting:
1G brand new empty SATA internal drive that isn't internal (just bare drive)
USB SATA cradle that will run that drive externally
The plan is to install updates to Lion on p1 of the new drive and Snow Leopard on p2 and at some point swap the internal drive for the new one. At that point I will have L and SL on the MBP, two external drives each of which is running SL and I'll go get *another* external drive to back up Lion (the then bare old internal drive that was in the MBP will also be spare).
There seem to be lots of different install/swap strategies to get going with Lion - what's the best ?
For example:
(1) clone the current SL to p1 and another clone to p2 on the bare external drive, then upgrade p1 on the drive to Lion, then swap it into the machine
or
(2) clone SL to a *single* 1Tb partition on the bare drive, swap drives, repartition to two 500G partitions (I believe this can be done without losing data) then restore SL to p2 on the MBP
or
(3) create p1 and p2 on the bare drive, clone SL to p1, swap drives, upgrade p1 to Lion, restore SL to p2
and so on.
What's the best strategy ?
andy
MBP 2010 with 1Tb internal drive with two 500 G partitions:
p1 = Current Snow Leopard upgraded to Lion
p2 = Current Snow Leopard (not upgraded to Lion)
What I have currently:
In Use:
MBP wth Snow Leopard running on internal 500G drive
two external firewire 500G drives which I use to clone the MBP Snow
Leopard for backup (I alternate them)
In waiting:
1G brand new empty SATA internal drive that isn't internal (just bare drive)
USB SATA cradle that will run that drive externally
The plan is to install updates to Lion on p1 of the new drive and Snow Leopard on p2 and at some point swap the internal drive for the new one. At that point I will have L and SL on the MBP, two external drives each of which is running SL and I'll go get *another* external drive to back up Lion (the then bare old internal drive that was in the MBP will also be spare).
There seem to be lots of different install/swap strategies to get going with Lion - what's the best ?
For example:
(1) clone the current SL to p1 and another clone to p2 on the bare external drive, then upgrade p1 on the drive to Lion, then swap it into the machine
or
(2) clone SL to a *single* 1Tb partition on the bare drive, swap drives, repartition to two 500G partitions (I believe this can be done without losing data) then restore SL to p2 on the MBP
or
(3) create p1 and p2 on the bare drive, clone SL to p1, swap drives, upgrade p1 to Lion, restore SL to p2
and so on.
What's the best strategy ?
andy