[G4] Back up G3/G4

Harry Freeman harry at gifutiger.com
Thu Jul 20 13:15:48 PDT 2006


Greetings ( + )!( + )

To get the build number, open the System Profiler and click on software.

My build is 7W98 (Mac OS X 10.3.9 (7W98))

On Jul 20, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Tony Johansen wrote:
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> On 21/7/2006 2:26 AM, "John Baltutis" <baltwo at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> On 07/20/06, Tony Johansen <tjoh7019 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> No... I'm confused a little. The article talks about more recent or 
> less
> recent but makes no mention of G3 or G4. As my G3 iBook is running 
> 10.3.9,
> would that then run on a G4 if it was of an age that it would have been
> installed with Panther 10.3.9 when it was new?
>
> The article talks of locating a 'build number' in 'about this Mac' but 
> I
> could find no such details in either the iBook or eMac.
>
> I bought the iBook about 6 months ago, but judge it to be several 
> years old,
> but have no way of telling.
>
>
> Tony
> http://www.tonyjohansen.com
> A Life Of Art


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