Joe
If you haven't set up the G5 yet, then the first time you do you
should get asked if you want to transfer information from another
Mac. If you say yes to this, you'll get advised on how to do it, via
Firewire. I did this when I setup my Mini just before Christmas and
everything came across from my old PowerBook really well. I
understand that the Powerbook has a built-in monitor, of course, but
as others have said the G4 should run 'headless'.
Do a search in Apple Support for 'Setup Assistant' and 'Migration
Assistant'.
Tom Burke
On 10 Feb 2006, at 09:17, Joe B wrote:
I'got some health problems and am quite weak physically so I can't
just
move everything around and try all the different options like I would
otherwise- plus just to make things complicated I also get mentally
exhausted pretty quickly. Consequently I'd ideally like to know
what I'm
doing here before I start trying to do it. Any help with this would
be much
appreciated.
I've got an old 667 G4 tower (that was my first Mac) and now I've
just got
a new G5 tower, both runnning Tiger. I haven't connected the G5 up
yet. I
need to copy across a lot of data and applications from the old
machine to
the new one. I've read about Target Disk Mode but it doesn't seem to
explain certain things- I get the impression that they assume you
have a
monitor connected to each computer, which I don't- I have just the
one.
I've also read that it's possible to have a small network just by
connecting the two machines with an Ethernet cable. Now this sounds
more
like it- I could have the monitor connected to the new machine and
get the
old machine, or its internal hard drive to appear on the desktop of
the new
machine. Is this right? And can I copy across whatever I want this
way as
conveniently as with TDM? If so that sounds like it _might_ be the
better
method.
If you think I should be using Target Disk Mode instead to copy
applications etc across, please say so! And if I can do this with one
monitor that would be great- but - which machine would I connect it
to?
I have my fingers crossed that this is all going to be easier than it
sounds at the moment.... TIA for any help with this.
--
Joe B.
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