John; Barrow or buy a firewire enclosure, and use that to do the migration assistant [ or if the new Mac supports multiple drives, just install the old drive in the new Mac and migrate from there ]. Russell On Jan 19, 2007, at 12:37 PM, John Erdman wrote: > > My current iMac G5's Firewire ports died about 9 months ago and is > unusable. I expect a new Intel iMac to arrive today. All the > instructions for the Migration Assistant seem to assume that > Firewire is present and healthy. > > Both machine will have OS 10.4.8. Can anyone point me to a place > where I can find migration advice for the best way to do this. > Since I'm moving from a G5 machine to an Intel machine, it doesn't > seem like using one of the HD cloners would be a good way to go. > The Apple support pages haven't been very useful for this. > > Short of moving selected apps, reinstalling others, all by hand > which appears to me to be a multi-hour job, Is there an easier way > to go about it? > > Thanks, > John > > > > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984