Reinstallation (Leopard ) from included dvds on external usb drive

Hi
I've run software that copies the system to a remote drive and tested booting successfully. I'm curious though how I can do an installation from the dvds that come with my macbook pro to an external drive to test the process. I'd like to see this work, then boot from it, and ensure that the system will work, that iLife is installed, and just see a vanilla benchmark. Obviously, I don't want to do this to my live system.
Thanks...

SFGREG2008 wrote:
Hi
I did try super-duper before. Yes, I think I understand, similarly if you are restoring apps etc, there is no guarantee everything would be synched properly, makes a lot more sense to reinstall your apps, and just use Time Machine to restore jpg, doc, mp3 and the like....
well, you can use TM the way you like but I can tell you from my personal experience that I absolutely love the feature to be able to do full system restore from any time in the past you have a backup for. I've done it at least 4 times already after messing up my system with some 3rd party apps and never had a problem.
However, with that said, what would you tell Time Machine to say restore all files that are missing from the backup copy if you wanted to?
Or perhaps, look through all of your backups and give me any and all mp3 files?
I see that you are not really familiar with how TM works and what it can and can not do. I would therefore highly recommend visiting the following links
[Mac 101: Using Time Machine in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306681]
[Mac OS X 10.5 Help|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/11422.html]
[TM video|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2fHdUL5GAM]
[Full system restore using TM|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/15638.html].
You'll understand it better that way. Post if you still have questions afterwards.
Thanks.

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