[schwachs]

I just got a new G4 Dual... I want to move everything from my old one to my new one but if possible, I'd rather not move the system itself as

I kind of like the idea of starting fresh there. Any ideas on the best way to do this, things not to forget, etc?

[Spheric Harlot]

I just moved from my iMac DV to a new 12" Powerbook (spectacular machine, absolutely stellar).

I hooked up the NEW machine as a Target disk (start up holding the "T" key) to the old machine and copied all my stuff over from the old machine (doing it the other way round results in a bunch of preference files not being replaceable because they're in use).

Using the Finder, I shifted:

- everything non-stock in /Applications and /Applications/Utilities
- everything non-stock (including the entire Preference folder) in /Library
- everything non-stock in /System/Library
- the entire user folder at /Users/<username>

I then restarted the NEW machine from the installation disk and ran Disk Utility immediately AFTER the copying to fix permissions that might have got messed up through the copying.

Rebooted from internal hard drive, and the machine was a virtual clone of the old, except with a freshly-installed OS.
Even the Dock links were there - and worked.

I'd previously done the standard install on the new machine (using the software restore DVD) and set up a standard admin user.

AFAICT, everything is working perfectly EXCEPT for the Virtual PC drives (broken linkage).

-s*

[schwachs]

You do this just straight firewire to firewire, right?

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
I just moved from my iMac DV to a new 12" Powerbook (spectacular machine, absolutely stellar).

I hooked up the NEW machine as a Target disk (start up holding the "T" key) to the old machine and copied all my stuff over from the old machine (doing it the other way round results in a bunch of preference files not being replaceable because they're in use).

Using the Finder, I shifted:

- everything non-stock in /Applications and /Applications/Utilities
- everything non-stock (including the entire Preference folder) in /Library
- everything non-stock in /System/Library
- the entire user folder at /Users/<username>

I then restarted the NEW machine from the installation disk and ran Disk Utility immediately AFTER the copying to fix permissions that might have got messed up through the copying.

Rebooted from internal hard drive, and the machine was a virtual clone of the old, except with a freshly-installed OS.
Even the Dock links were there - and worked.

I'd previously done the standard install on the new machine (using the software restore DVD) and set up a standard admin user.

AFAICT, everything is working perfectly EXCEPT for the Virtual PC drives (broken linkage).

-s*