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Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / August 2007Tiger synchronisation wizard
I have two Mac Minis (G4, 512MB, 80GB, SuperDrive) and a USB/Firewire caddy for a desktop IDE hard disk. Someone I know wants to buy one of these Mac Minis, buy only if he can transfer the files, preferences and so on from his old machine, a B/W G3 running Tiger. He only kept the 80GB desktop IDE hard disk from inside that machine. There seem to be a number of ways to do this; I'd welcome suggestions as to which is likely to be the best. > I have two Mac Minis (G4, 512MB, 80GB, SuperDrive) and a USB/Firewire > caddy for a desktop IDE hard disk. Someone I know wants to buy one of [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > There seem to be a number of ways to do this; I'd welcome suggestions > as to which is likely to be the best. Easiest is to put his 80GB IDE drive into a USB2/Firewire enclosure. That way he gets an external 80Gb drive after mucking about, and umm you seem to have such an enclosure ready to hand. > > I have two Mac Minis (G4, 512MB, 80GB, SuperDrive) and a USB/Firewire > > caddy for a desktop IDE hard disk. Someone I know wants to buy one of [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > That way he gets an external 80Gb drive after mucking about, and umm you > seem to have such an enclosure ready to hand. It depends on how much mucking about is involved, to update the original install, to support a Mac Mini instead of (as well as?) a B/W G3. If he wants the thing to boot off the internal drive, could I boot from the external drive and use the console "dd" command to clone the disk contents from external to internal? >> > I have two Mac Minis (G4, 512MB, 80GB, SuperDrive) and a USB/Firewire >> > caddy for a desktop IDE hard disk. Someone I know wants to buy one of [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >external drive and use the console "dd" command to clone the disk >contents from external to internal? No, not like that: Put old disk into external thing. Install OSX on Mini. When it asks you if you want to migrate any users, plug external thing into Mini. Tada! Cheers - Jaimie  Signature"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates >Put old disk into external thing. >Install OSX on Mini. >When it asks you if you want to migrate any users, plug external thing >into Mini. Or use Firewire Target mode if the old machine can do that (old machine acts as an enclosure for the drive, basically). Or use Utilities/Migration Assistant on the Mini if you've already installed OSX. A combination of the above has had one Jaimie account plus bits'n'bobs migrated from a G4 Mini to a G4 PB to two Intel MacBooks and from one of those to an Intel Mini. I was very impressed, several times. Cheers - Jaimie Signature"First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs." - Quoted by Peter Ellis, afp > >Put old disk into external thing. > >Install OSX on Mini. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Cheers - Jaimie I found using the migration assitant infinitely more useful than Target Disk mode, or directly connecting the disk at install time. As in trying at install time /never/ worked, and Migration assistant worked first time. I was trying to go from a Powermac G5 to Mac Pro. Somthing about the at-install-time migrate just didn't work. Cheers, Signaturejames dore IT Officer, New College, Oxford http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/ it-support@new.... >> Or use Firewire Target mode if the old machine can do that (old >> machine acts as an enclosure for the drive, basically). [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >time. I was trying to go from a Powermac G5 to Mac Pro. Somthing about >the at-install-time migrate just didn't work. I've seen that too. I think it was probably due to the old machine having a patched-up install, eg 10.4.10, while the new machine comes with eg 10.4.6 on the install CD, and the installer-migrator gets bemused by BOM differences or some such. Cheers - Jaimie Signature"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future" - Niels Bohr > I have two Mac Minis (G4, 512MB, 80GB, SuperDrive) and a USB/Firewire > caddy for a desktop IDE hard disk. Someone I know wants to buy one of [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > There seem to be a number of ways to do this; I'd welcome suggestions > as to which is likely to be the best. The simplest, and arguebly the best, is to buy a cheap ATA -> USB2 adapter. It will connect any PATA or SATA device (powered or unpowered) to the USB2 port. About 15 € over here. And once you have it you'll use it occasionally, and be glad you have it. It greatly simplifies changing a HD for example, without needing a second machine and changing disks twice. Best, Jan |
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