On 07/20/06, Tony Johansen <tjoh7019 at bigpond.net.au> wrote: > > I presume a restore to the iBook should work back via the same route of > external drive to the eMac to the target mode iBook. > Yes. > Also I do not know if, when disaster strikes, and the G3 is defunct, if I > replaced it with a G4, would the restore still work? In other words is there > something about the G3 that would prevent a bootable clone that originated > on a G3 iBook from restoring onto a G4 iBook? <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25784 > should answer your question.