[G4] Cloning G4 to G5: Naming Hard Drives

[John Miller]

James:

Putting my G4 hard drive into the G5 won't work:  The G4 hard drives 
are ATA.  The new G5's take Serial ATA (SATA) only.  So, cannot use an 
ATA drive in the G5 (although I understand there are ATA-to-SATA 
adapters out there...but I don't trust them).

On Feb 19, 2005, at 1:54 PM, James Asherman wrote:

>
> On Saturday, February 19, 2005, at 04:20  PM, John Miller wrote:
>
>> James:  Yes, system install is what I should have said....not restore.
>>
>> I've had several suggestions to just use the Setup Assistant that 
>> comes with OSX (Applications/Utilities).  The G5 I bought was 
>> actually setup once already, as the person I bought it from (a 
>> graphics designer) loaded a graphics package, then decided to sell 
>> it.  It's essentially brand new, but does have a User set up with:  
>> username = admin; and password = admin.  I'll trigger Setup Assistant 
>> once again and see if that works.  Would be a lot easier than my 
>> original approach.
>>
>> If that does not work, then I'll probably follow the 10 steps I 
>> outlined.  Thanks for your ideas, guys.
>>
>>
> Getting rid of a former user is hard. Down deep one of my machines is 
> still called "Larry's computer".
>
> Here is one of my crazy approaches.
>  Take out the boot drive from your 867. Mount it in the new machine.
> Start up and make sure you're ok
> select your old disc as startup. restart.
> format boot disc that came with new machine.
> use CCC to clone your old drive.
>  Remove old drive (first select new one as startup.)
> Now upgrade OS with new install discs.
> Maybe you can do all of this in firewire target mode (eliminate the 
> screwdriver work) I don't  know.
>  Jim
>
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