<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">A friend moving form an MDD to a 24" iMac even had trouble using the migration assistant in target disk mode. We ended up having to use SuperDuper to dupe is old drive onto a FW external, then running migration assistant with that as the FW device worked fine.<div><br></div><div>I've never seen Migration Assistant work across a network, so if that is what you are trying to do, I add my voice to the chorus suggesting to use target disk mode instead.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Cindy MOORE wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I have been trying to migrate my setting from my 5.5 year old mid-price G5<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(tiger) to my new iMac. The G5 sees the iMac and starts the migration<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">progress (using ethernet) both computers are saying they are processing but<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">connection is always lost before process is completed.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I went online and was told I needed to update the firmware for the G5. Tried<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">this, but the firmware available is not for my G5.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Any suggestions on getting all this stuff over to the new computer?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thank you, Cindy<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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