Cloning OS X Partition to another drive

Disk Utilities worked like a charm

Thanks guys, I managed to clone my installation using disk utilities several times trying to update Tiger. Alas none of the updates produced a usable OS. I did learn a great deal while experiencing some serious growing pains. Solaris was a much easier OS to manage than OS X. It has been several years since I tackled anything this complicated.
You guys are well versed in this area and I do appreciate all the help you have given me. Guess it is time to dig in the pockets and donate to the cause.

Again thanks for the support.

if i was you, i would use Disk Utilities to do it, of course you will have to do it via boot-up disk, but once you have made an image of your currect OS X partition restored it to your new partition and installed Chameleon onto the new partition you are all set. this is how i have done it for almost a year now, works everytime for me

I think that no matter what method you use to clone the partition, you would need to reinstall the bootloader (chameleon) after cloning.

I've got a simple guide on Cloning a complete byte2byte disk using dd with one usb linux distro..

you can see it here but it's in Hellenic (Greek)
How to Clone your Current System →
but you can translate it using translate.google.com with ease!