Thanks Jerry, but repairing permissions hasn't worked. I don't think I've ever used classic but who knows. I'll keep trying. Alex
On Dec 5, 2007 2:53 PM, Jerry Freeman < x12 at insightbb.com> wrote: > you repair permission on the ibook g4 10.4x? 10.5 does not support > classic, hence will not transfer classic located within 10.4. ie > continue to keep trying. if that doesn't work you could transfer by > hand in target disk mode. best...jf > > On Dec 5, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Alex Whitman wrote: > > > I am trying to set up my new (refurbished) MacBook (with 10.5), and > > I want to copy everything over from my G4 iBook (running 10.4.11) > > but there is a glitch. I shut down the iBook, connected the firewire > > cable to both machines, and restarted the iBook holding down the T > > key. The big firewire symbol appears on the iBook screen, but the > > MacBook gives this error message: > > > > "There are no versions of Mac OS X available on your old Mac. > > You can only transfer information from a Mac that has OS X installed. > > Click Continue to keep trying, or click Cancel to stop the > > transferring." > > > > Do they really mean it has to be the same version of OS X? > > > > The cable worked a few months ago to transfer files between a G4 > > iMac and an intel Mini and hasn't been abused since then. I know the > > iBook is working as I am writing this message on it. Any ideas will > > be most gratefully appreciated. > > > > Alex Whitman > > _______________________________________________ > > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > > be January 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be January 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20071205/ce802703/attachment.html
