[X4U] Migration from G4 to G5

Craig A. Finseth fin at finseth.com
Tue Feb 15 14:03:30 PST 2005


   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.

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



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