On Oct 8, 2005, at 8:30 PM, G-Books wrote:
Hello all.
My father in law has decided on a new 14" iBook and needs to get stuff
from his old Wallstreet II (300 Mhz OS9) to the iBook (OS 10.4?).
I suggested the external USB drive case for the WS hard drive but he
wants to keep the Wallstreet as a backup computer (even though it
has a
broken hinge).
The iBook doesn't have SCSI so he can't boot the WS in target disk
mode.
Could he boot the iBook in firewire mode and use a firewire PC card to
mount it on the wallstreet? We'd need to find him a firewire card for
the wallstreet.
Could he connect the two computers with an ethernet cable?
It would be slow but we could do it with existing ports.
Do you need a crossover cable or a regular one?
Any links to tutorials?
Thanks
Andrew
It's perfectly doable using an Ethernet cable. If the iBook is a
fairly new model, you can use a regular cable (recent macs use auto-
sensing ports). For older models, you'd have to use a crossover cable
or a hub.
The firewire pccard would be faster, but since you don't have one
already I'd say go ahead with ethernet.
Make sure you turn file sharing on. If you need more info just ask
here or email privately.
Luis Sequeira
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