| Migrate fro G4 to iMac G5 [message #40913] |
Sun, 03 March 2013 17:14  |
les simo
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Hi all,
I have a G4/350 Sawtooth and will be receiving an iMac G5/2.0 shortly. I
wish to migrate(I hope this is the correct term) IOW. transfer all contents
of the G4 to the iMac. What is the most efficient way to accomplish
this?BTW I do not have any external drives, so this will have to be a
computer to computer transfer. The G4 is running OS X 10.4.11 and so will
the iMac G5
Thanks
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| Re: Migrate fro G4 to iMac G5 [message #40914 is a reply to message #40913] |
Sun, 03 March 2013 18:01  |
Clark Martin
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Registered: August 2012
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On Mar 3, 2013, at 2:14 PM, les simo wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a G4/350 Sawtooth and will be receiving an iMac G5/2.0 shortly. I wish to migrate(I hope this is the correct term) IOW. transfer all contents of the G4 to the iMac. What is the most efficient way to accomplish this?BTW I do not have any external drives, so this will have to be a computer to computer transfer. The G4 is running OS X 10.4.11 and so will the iMac G5
If you wish to make the G5 look just like the G4 then you can connect the two together using a firewire cable, start up one in Target Disk Mode (TDM), then boot off that drive and copy from the boot drive to the other using Carbon Copy Cloner <www.bombich.com>.
TDM makes the drive in a computer look like a firewire drive. You start it by booting and holding down the 't' key. The screen will show a firewire symbol (something like a 'Y') bouncing around the screen.
Once the G4 is started in TDM and both are connected together, start the G5 and hold down the option key. A window showing available boot drives, a try again button and a proceed arrow should appear. Click on the ICON for the G4 drive and then the arrow button on the right. It will boot from the G4 HD. Launch Carbon Copy Cloner and copy from the G4 to the G5.
If the G5 has Leopard (10.5) on it you might want to consider using it though. If you do you can use Migration Assistant to transfer stuff from the G4 to the G5. Again you can do this using a firewire cable and TDM.
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