On Dec 19, 2005, at 2:58 PM, Andre Ruegg wrote:
I have just received a new 15² PowerBook and am wondering how to best
transfer the contents of my iBook G3 to the new laptop. The iBook is
currently running OS 10.3.9.
I will then need to transfer my wife¹s system from a firewire drive
to the
iBook. Her system is at OS 10.2.8. If at all possible I would also
like to
update the iBook to Tiger with the install disks from the new
PowerBook.
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Migration assistant worked well for me. Start up the old computer in
firewire target disk mode & attach it to the new one and run
migration assistant on the new one.
In fact, when you first start up the powerbook it should ask if you
want to import old accounts.
Do NOT make an account on the new computer in the name you want
before doing this. If you make an account, call it "temp" or
something. I made this mistake when I was setting up a new disk for
my father's computer; I installed a clean system at home, and a user
account in his name, then when I put the disk in his computer and his
old disk in a firewire case and tried to migrate from the old disk to
the new one, it complained about the duplicate names and I had to
make a new {username}_old account. (I should have realized that in
advance but I didn't really think it through.)
When you're done moving everything to your new powerbook, I would
wipe the ibook disk and do a fresh system install, then attach your
wife's firewire drive to the ibook and run migration assistant to
suck her account over. BUT if you don't have Tiger (and the PB
install disks probably won't work), I don't think that migration
assistant in the older system (I assume you have 10.3 disks??) is as
sophisticated. Not that I've tried to use it. Just that Tiger is
the first time I started to hear people advising its use for routine
upgrades, because it had gotten so good.
Anne
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