[KidRed]

I'm performing migration now onto my new G5, and had a question. I have two internal drives installed on my old G4. How can I get that styuff over? I don't have enough outlets for two towers, 2 monitors, 2 keyboards, 2 mice, etc. Is there an easy way? I didn't see it mount on my G5, just the main master (slave?) drive.

Man, 2 hours to transfer over everything, haha

[osxrules]

All you need to do is to run the G5 without the monitor or keyboard or mouse. Just get a standard ethernet cable and join the G4 to the G5. The newer macs recognise the standard ethernet cable so you don't need a cross-over cable (which is an ethernet cable with some pins mixed about).

If you installed an OS onto the G5, which I would recommend then you can just mount it from the network icon and copy files over manually - turn personal file sharing on for your G5. If you want to keep all your settings exactly, you can use a program called SuperDuper to clone the existing drive and everything will run with the same settings.

Like I say, when you get a new machine, you are sometimes better with a fresh install. I only use the cloning for making a backup of my drive to an external firewire hard drive in case something goes wrong.

[jmiddel]

You can also connect the towers with a firewire cable and start G5 in target mode by holding down the T key on restart. After you see a blue screen with a couple of yellow firewire icons, you can attach the monitor to the other computer which you should already be running and the HD of the G5 will mount on your desktop. Then you can do anything you want.

[KidRed]

Yea, I used the target mode, but it only found the main drive, not the second one I installed. I have the cross over cable and that didn't see the second drive either.

I had to copy everything over to an external drive, then copy it back onto my G5. Took all day, but well worth it.