[X4U] B&W G3 to Mac mini upgrade problem

[Vince Lewis]

On May 5, 2005, at 9:07 AM, Joe Sporleder wrote:

> Yesterday I installed a Mac mini in a remote single person newspaper 
> office as a replacement for an aging B&W G3. The Mac mini came with 
> MacOS X 10.3.7 and the B&W G3 was running a slightly older version of 
> Panther. I used Software update and brought both machines up to 
> 10.3.9. I repaired disk permissions on both drives, then used Carbon 
> Copy Cloner running on the B&W G3's internal drive, to clone its 
> internal drive to an external Lacie FireWire drive. I then reversed 
> the process and cloned the FireWire data to the Mac mini's internal 
> drive. I've tried using both Carbon Copy Cloner & Disk Utility to do 
> the cloning, but whatever I do, I can't get the Mac mini to fully 
> start up from the internal drive. It hangs up during the startup 
> process at either the network services or at the windows login 
> services (at the tail end of the MacOS X startup progress bar).  
> However, the Mac mini runs perfectly fine started up from the external 
> FireWire drive that I'm trying to copy from . . . in fact, all of our 
> normal production applications, font manager, email, iCal, iChat and 
> other preferences are there, running perfectly just as they were on 
> the old B&W G3. The B&W G3 of course, is unable to boot from FireWire, 
> could that have something to do with it? If worse comes to worse, I 
> can reinstall all of my production apps from scratch, but if anyone 
> has a simpler idea to try first, I would be interested in hearing it.
>
> Joe
>
Last step should be to [re]run the Combo 10.3.9 updater on the Mini.
ciao,
Vince
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