John McGibney wrote: >Did you buy a new previously used powerbook or new from the store powerbook? >Since December or so Apple included the "migration" utility with all the new >computers. Not with OS-X install CDS. I couldn't locate it as a separate >download from Apple. You'll have to use carbon copy cloner to copy your >User, Library, & System folders to the new machine. Unless someone has the >Setup Assistant as an installer pkg and can send it to you. > >John Hi John, Well, I picked up Tiger this evening, installed it, and have compiled a list of 150 applications and utilities, that were on my old Ti-Book, that were dragged in target-mode (along with support files), across the firewire to the new Powerbook, and all is well. I had to do some batch changes of 'group' IDs. They were 'admin' on the Ti, and became 'unknown' on the Aluminum. I used a nice little NeXTSTEP utility to deal with it, and evrything's working just great. brian s