[G4] Migrating to G5

[Tim Collier]

When I purchased my iMac G5, the utility came up and walked me through 
the process of importing everything from my old G4 iMac.  Everything 
went flawlessly and I did not experience any data loss.  Even 
applications got copied along with preferences.  It went very smoothly.

Tim
On Dec 9, 2004, at 8:49 PM, Eric Volker wrote:

> It sounds as if the migration utility will do everything I need it to 
> do (transfer data *and* applications), therefore there is no need to 
> experiment with target disk mode or Carbon Copy Cloner. As jj says, I 
> think it would boot but might have been missing features or not 
> perform up to par. It still would have been interesting to try, but it 
> shouldn't be necessary.
>
> Thanks to everyone who replied.
>
> Eric
>
> On Dec 9, 2004, at 6:47 PM, John Baltutis wrote:
>
>> On 12/09/04, Eric Volker <ebv1 at charter.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've gone ahead and taken the plunge and ordered a G5. My dilemma is 
>>> how
>>> to transfer my data and settings to the new computer. One scenario 
>>> I've
>>> contemplated is taking the boot drive out of my G4, putting it in a
>>> Firewire enclosure, booting off the drive on the G5 and using Carbon
>>> Copy Cloner to overwrite the G5's boot drive. Is this scenario 
>>> feasible?
>>> The OS on the G4 is a retail install of OS 10.3.6, so theoretically 
>>> the
>>> G4 drive should boot the G5 (right?) I do have some non-Apple 
>>> hardware
>>> installed on the G4 (M-Audio Revolution 7.1 and Sonnet Aria 
>>> Extreme), so
>>> that might complicate the issue. Any insights or suggestions would be
>>> welcome.
>>
>> Not a very good plan. See
>> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25784> for details. 
>> Also,
>> the new machines have a migration tool to do exactly what you want to 
>> do.
>> See <http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=3799> for more 
>> information.
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