If you will forgive me replying to my own email: It occurs to me that:
* The obvious way to do this was with the Set-up assistant on the new machine, or with migration assistant later. * Rod tried this first, but ran into problems he wonders if the problem is restoring from 10.5 system to a 10.6 system. * If so, the same problems MAY prevent step 1 of my approach also. If this is the case, you could try using a 10.5 system (assuming you have another 10.5 machine available) to perform step 1 and then proceed with steps 2 & 3 from the new 10.6 Macbook. Just a thought. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/2/10 2:03 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > Hi Ronni & Rod, > > I¹m not 100% sure on this so please forgive me if I¹ve got hold of the wrong > end of the stick! > > From Rod¹s email he wants to restore all a students accounts & info from the > Time machine backup of the students old macbook (which is dead) to a new > macbook. > > I would have thought that the instructions Ronni has given are more > appropriate for restoring to the same computer (say if the hard disc died and > was replaced) > > My concerns: > * The original machine was older hardware and ran OSX 10.5 > * The new machine came with OSX 10.6 > * The restore procedure given will restore the hard drive to the OSX 10.5 > configuration of the old machine. > * This configuration may not suit the new hardware. > > For example, my new iMac27, delivered with SL 10.6, will not boot from a clone > of my old 24² iMac running Leopard 10.5. Also, I note that the article that > Ronni references <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1964018> > does say: > >> > But do not try this full system restore from a different Mac's backups. If >> it >> > boots at all, many things will likely go wrong, as the new Mac won't have >> the >> > correct hardware drivers, among other things. > > I would have thought a better approach might be: > > 1. Perform a Time Machine restore of the old system (as per Ronni¹s > instructions) to either a separate hard drive or a separate partition (to the > SL 10.6 system) on the new machine. > 2. Then use Migration assistant to copy the accounts (and applications if > wished and compatible) from the restored Leopard drive/partition to the new SL > drive/partition. > 3. After successful migration, testing and back-up of the new set-up, the > original restored Leopard drive/partion can be erased. > > This may take longer to do, but I would have thought it would ensure that the > appropriate system software was installed on the new machine. Forgive me if I > have misunderstood the situation/set-up, but I would hate to see the new > macbook SL system get overwritten with the 10.5 system of an older hardware > machine. > > > > Cheers > > > > Neil -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
