Alex, I would call Apple technical support.
http://www.apple.com/support/contact/ You may also bring both laptops to the Genius Bar and have them troubleshoot the problem for free. You will need to make a reservation first. http://concierge.apple.com/store/R264 Ward Oldham On Dec 5, 2007, at 8:21 PM, Alex Whitman wrote: > Yep, I did that. It's the second step after turning the MacBook on > for the very first time and following the set up instructions. It > just doesn't recognize anything on the iBook. I'm going to try > making an old G4 iMac the target and if that doesn't work I will > call Apple tomorrow. > > I know I can set it up without transferring my settings but this is > a major purchase and it should work as advertised. > > Alex > > On 12/5/07, Ed Wiser <wiserone1 at gmail.com> wrote: > You need to make one the "target" and the other the "source." Open > Migration Assistant on the MacBook. Follow instructions. Start the > source disk?after connecting Fire Wire with the "T" key held down. > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20071205/50b7bb32/attachment.html
