[X4U] Migration from G4 to G5

KJS explorerguy at mac.com
Tue Feb 15 15:02:00 PST 2005


> It doesn't transfer all of things like X11 and Classic.  Of course, it
> doesn't _tell_ you that it doesn't transfer these, and you can (and I
> did) spend several hours trying to figure out what was missing.
> 
> In retrospect, it would have been a lot faster to use CCC to dump to a
> disk and load from there.
> 
> Craig

>It's on the new Mac--it's not available for d/l.
> James S Jones

> It's not just to a new G5.  I got a new powerbook, and it was able to
> move all apps, data, and user accounts over during the first startup.
> You just boot the old machine to firewire target mode, and connect a
> firewire cable.  Away you go.   They give you easy directions during
> the process.  *Very* simple.  It'd pass the mother test, etc.
> 
> There are a few apps that don't transfer the serial numbers quite
> right- Apple Remote Desktop is one- it needs to be serialized again.
> Dreamweaver worked fine, as did Adobe Acrobat, and i assume the rest of
> the 2 suites did too.
> 
> Matthew

> Nope. No dreaming. It's an application and part of OS X 10.3, called Setup
> Assistant. It's located in /System/Library/CoreServices/. Launch it see
> what it does. Details at
> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300299> and
> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25773>.
> John Baltutis

Ahhhh, this is what I was thinking of. Thanks, guys!

Jerry





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