Question before installing Tiger....

Hi all...
this may sound like a silly question, but I just wanted to cover my butt...
Ok, I plan to install Tiger on my Power Mac G5, and I am backing up files and such on an external hard-drive...Is it possible to just drag and drop the Adobe programs(or any program for that matter) onto the external, then wipe the G5 hard-drive, install Tiger, plug in the external and retrieve the Adobe programs off the external and drop them onto the G5's newly formatted hard drive? Are there components that should be put on the external hard drive?
I'd like to do this with out having to re-install the programs by disk because they're not on me at the moment. Any help would be wonderful.
G5 Power Mac Dual Processor Mac OS X (10.3.9)

The best way to accomplish this is to clone your entire system to external using CarbonCopy Cloner or SuperDuper.
Then, you can follow these steps
Good luck, let us know if you have any questions.
-mj
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pomme-homme wrote:
OK, so I am ready to take the plunge. I want to back up my Tiger HD before installing Leopard but have some confusion about the best way to do this. I have Super Duper and a FireWire LaCie external HD with sufficient space to clone my Tiger system. However, there are other files on the LaCie and it is not partitioned. If I clone the Tiger HD to the LaCie, are all the other files going to be erased?
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