[X4U] Migrate without Firewire link.

[Neil_ Pollack]

Does Migration Assistant work over Ethernet?  That would be easier than removing the hard drive from the iMac.

 
On Friday, January 19, 2007, at 04:59PM, "John Erdman" <jperdman at earthlink.net> wrote:
>The "old" iMac G5 still works just fine except that the Firewire  
>ports don't work.  I'm passing it on to my wife who doesn't need or  
>want all the bells and whistles. So I'm not planning to remove the  
>old drive.
>
>I do have an external drive (USB 2) that I can write to. But it's USB  
>not firewire. I do have a Firewire only enclosure that I could move  
>the HD to. I.e. write on the HD with USB, move the HD to the FW  
>enclosure, then
>connect the migration assistant to the FW drive enclosure.  That what  
>you had in mind?
>
>I could see this work except:
>The question I'd have is exactly what do I write over to the external  
>HD (besides the USER folders) ? Which system files should be  
>included.? Aren't the system files for the MacTel version of OS X  
>different that the files used by the G5 machines.?
>
>John
>
>> 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:
>>
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