Thanks Daniel, I appreciate your input :o) Sorry I’m only replying now. The last few days I’ve been working from 5:30AM to Midnight each day. I had to check to see if I was wearing “Daniel Kerr’s” Name Badge! ;-)
I asked John for more details of RAM & HD & Free space on HD so I could then give perhaps 3 suggestions. First Suggestion: Upgrade the PowerBook ‘Pismo’ to Tiger OSX 10.4 (which is capable of running OS X 10.4.11 That is if he had enough RAM, Free space left on his HD and a Optical DVD drive that is working. I would have preferred he had at least 512MB or better 1GB RAM BUT only having 2.38GB Free on the HD is probably not enough to do an “Archive & Install” of Tiger. If he could have upgraded to Tiger OS X 10.4 he could use Target Disk Mode & Migration Assistant to bring his User Accounts etc over to the NEW iMac. Second Suggestion: The same as yours below: Boot the Pismo into Firewire Target Disk Mode and transfer his Data across. Transfer his Home Folder and Files & Folders … but NO OS9 Applications. Third Suggestion: Pay a Consultant to do the Transfer & Setup. Purchase his iMac from say MacWizardry, pay the extra to have Daniel do the “Transfer and Setup”. Then it will be done correctly and cost John less in the long run. I’ve had people try to do this themselves and experience trouble ‘manually’ transferring all their data across and into the correct locations in OS X 10.6.7. Then they have called me to “please come fix the mess” … It is a tedious job, I know as I’ve done it for clients. Cheers, Ronni On 31/05/2011, at 11:35 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > > Weighing in late on this,... > But my preference would just be to put the Pismo into Firewire Target Mode > (Start the laptop up with the T key held down). It then turns into one big > "Hard Drive". Plug this into the new machine and then transfer across your > data. > I wouldn't even look at moving Applications (OS9) or anything from the > System Folder, well maybe bar fonts. > But Migration Assistant as such won't work, as it requires OSX on the "old > machine". > You'd then start with a "nice clean setup". > Install all the "fruit" and then put your files into the correct locations > (Documents, Desktop, Music, Movies etc etc). > > Less conflict of "old stuff to new stuff". > > Look around when looking to buy the iMac. Some places offer services to > migrate the old data for you to the new machine. (Differing level of > services versus cost depending on what's "done for you".). > > This can sometimes help as well, as they know where all the "hidden goodies" > are that your'e trying to move across. > > And there are ways to move email across to Mail as well. > > Hope that sort of helps as well. > I'm sure Ronni may add some more to my brief post :o) > > Kind regards > Daniel > > > On 31/5/11 11:12 PM, "j...@iinet.net.au" <j...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > >> >> Ronni, >> >> Ram 320MB >> HD 10GB >> Free 2.38GB >> No sure but I believe so DVD >> >> Sorry for the delay just home from work. Computer is at home. >> >> john >> >> On Tue May 31 15:22 , Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> sent: >> >>> >>> Hi John, >>> >>> I’ve changed the subject to Transfer/Migrate OS 9.2.2 PowerBook ‘Pismo’ G3 >>> to >>> OS >> X 10.6.7 Intel iMac. >>> >>> More questions need answering please: >>> >>> How much RAM does the PowerBook have installed … 1GB? >>> How large is the HD … 20GB? >>> How much ‘Free’ space left on the HD? >>> The PowerBook can read a DVD disc ok? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >>> >>> On 31/05/2011, at 1:13 PM, j...@iinet.net.au wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Ronni, >>>> >>>> Powerbook G3 Firewire and OS 9.2.2. I am aware that most if not all of the >> software >>>> will not run on the imac. A reason that I have been stalling. I was wanting >>>> to >> just >>>> get most of the data. I will look at upgrading software as and when I need >>>> it. >> One >>>> of the reasons for upgrading is I am getting impacted by the new software >>>> and >>>> sites. Also I am having problems restarting th PB, something to do with the >> sound. >>>> I have another spare screen and if it was possible I would like to keep the >>>> PB >> for >>>> some of the little graphic things I do if it was possible but if not thats >>>> fine. >>>> >>>> Hopefully this is enough info and I appreciate your help >>>> >>>> regards >>>> >>>> john >>>> >>> >>> >>>> On Tue May 31 10:53 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com> sent: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi John, >>>> >>>> More details are required please, before I could even attempt to give you >>>> any >> advice. >>>> >>>> The only ‘Pismo’ I know is a PowerBook G3 (Firewire) sold in 2000-2001 >>>> Check if it is a PowerBook3,1 >>>> >>>> Check ‘About this Computer’ & 'System Profiler’ for more details about your >> computer & operating system (OS X 9.2.2)? >>>> >>>> You do realise that OS 9 Applications will NOT run in OS X 10.6 … the NEW >>>> iMac >> will come with OS X 10.6.7 installed. >>>> There is NO Classic anymore. >>>> There is ‘Rosetta’ (as an Optional install) that allows your Intel iMac to >> open PPC ( PowerPC) Applications >>>> Your Mail will be in another format, a lot of documents (Appleworks) that >> won’t be readable in OS X 10.6 >>>> There will be a lot of converting, & finding either Updates for >>>> Applications >> to make them compatible with OS X 10.6. or using other Applications to do the >> job. >>>> >>>> Post back and we will take it from there ;-) >>> >>>>> On 31/05/2011, at 7:25 AM, John Hatch wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Roni, >>>>>> Just reading this post and I am going to buy a imac . I have Macbook pro >>>>>> prismo >>>> OS 9.2, what will be my method of transfering info from MBP to imac? >>>>>> Appreciate your thoughts >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Ronni >>>>> >>>>> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" >>>>> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD >>>>> >>>>> OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard >>>>> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >>> -- 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>
