Do you actually want to COPY the ENTIRE contents of one machine to the other? Or do you just want to use the working one to install a virgin copy of 10.0 on the empty one?
If the former, I would start the empty one in TDM, (ideally) boot the working one from a separate drive or DVD of any version of Mac OS if possible, then use Disk Utility to “restore” the working one’s drive onto the empty one. (It’s best not to be booted from the working drive at this point, because then the drive is being constantly changed. It will usually work, but it’s cleanest to avoid that.) If the latter, I would start the empty one in TDM, boot the working one normally, and run the Yosemite installer with the empty one as the target drive. The clearest way to think about TDM is that it turns an expensive Mac into a dumb external drive (or drives). There’s nothing any more complicated or special about it. On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:29 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote: > I have two identical MacBook Pros (13" mid-2010). MBP1 is bootable with OS X > 10.10, 250GB drive. MBP2 has a new, bare 500GB hard drive installed. Both > have a usable square FireWire port, for which I have a cable. How can I use > Target Disk Mode between the two to install MBP1's internal drive contents > onto MBP2's bare internal drive? Is there maybe some trick way to boot both > into TDM, and then TDM "knows" what's intended, and offers such an option? > > -Carl > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
