[X4U] Migration from G4 to G5

[Brett Conlon]

... remembering that CCC'ing a G4 OSX install to a G5 is not the best 
thing to do - as per the other list discussion on moving OSX from your top 
spec macs down the line rather than up.

Coj





"Craig A. Finseth" <fin at finseth.com>
Sent by: x4u-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
16/02/05 09:03 AM
Please respond to fin; Please respond to "A place to discuss Mac OS X for 
the casual user."
 
        To:     x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
        cc:     x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com, (bcc: Brett Conlon)
        Subject:        Re: [X4U] Migration from G4 to G5


   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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