[susanann]

I have an iMac G4 running on OS 10.2.8 and I'm ready for an upgrade, but I'm waiting til summer/fall to see if I want an iMac Intel or a G5 (and until I have the money). My daughter is using my old Power Mac cube. She's on OS 9.1.
Can I clone my system (OS 10.2.8/classic) onto hers to get us both by until I buy something newer and can give her this computer?

If I can, how do I do it?

I don't want to upgrade her past 10.2.8 until I do; she's not Mac literate.



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[OreoCookie]

You should not clone the system. You should get a FireWire cable and use the Migration Assistant to copy all data and applications you want your daughter to have on her cube.

1. Backup all data your daughter deems important: e-mails, documents, etc.
2. After you have made sure that all data has been copied to a safe location, insert the 10.2 install disc. Follow the instructions on the screen. Select a clean install (which deletes the harddrive). Then wait until the computer reboots.
3. After reboot you have to do some basic configuration (keyboard, location, etc.). Then you are asked to connect your `old' Mac (the iMac) via FireWire. They give clear instructions how to do that. (Reboot the iMac, press T on the iMac's keyboard, connect the two with the FireWire cable.)
4. Select the stuff you want to put onto your daughter's computer (applications, network settings, for instance would suffice if you don't want to copy your own data). If you daughter has an existing account on your iMac, you may want to copy that as well. She'll then have the same settings, desktop, etc. which she has on your iMac.
5. You're done now

[susanann]

Originally Posted by OreoCookie

You should not clone the system. You should get a FireWire cable and use the Migration Assistant to copy all data and applications you want your daughter to have on her cube.

1. Backup all data your daughter deems important: e-mails, documents, etc.
2. After you have made sure that all data has been copied to a safe location, insert the 10.2 install disc. Follow the instructions on the screen. Select a clean install (which deletes the harddrive). Then wait until the computer reboots.
3. After reboot you have to do some basic configuration (keyboard, location, etc.). Then you are asked to connect your `old' Mac (the iMac) via FireWire. They give clear instructions how to do that. (Reboot the iMac, press T on the iMac's keyboard, connect the two with the FireWire cable.)
4. Select the stuff you want to put onto your daughter's computer (applications, network settings, for instance would suffice if you don't want to copy your own data). If you daughter has an existing account on your iMac, you may want to copy that as well. She'll then have the same settings, desktop, etc. which she has on your iMac.
5. You're done now

I've thought and thought on this. I could just do a clean install of 10.2 and then upgrade to 10.2.5 and 10.2.8, using my install disks for, e. g. Quicken and PS Elements. Is there any advantage to one way or another?


s.

[goMac]

Originally Posted by OreoCookie

You should not clone the system. You should get a FireWire cable and use the Migration Assistant to copy all data and applications you want your daughter to have on her cube.

1. Backup all data your daughter deems important: e-mails, documents, etc.
2. After you have made sure that all data has been copied to a safe location, insert the 10.2 install disc. Follow the instructions on the screen. Select a clean install (which deletes the harddrive). Then wait until the computer reboots.
3. After reboot you have to do some basic configuration (keyboard, location, etc.). Then you are asked to connect your `old' Mac (the iMac) via FireWire. They give clear instructions how to do that. (Reboot the iMac, press T on the iMac's keyboard, connect the two with the FireWire cable.)
4. Select the stuff you want to put onto your daughter's computer (applications, network settings, for instance would suffice if you don't want to copy your own data). If you daughter has an existing account on your iMac, you may want to copy that as well. She'll then have the same settings, desktop, etc. which she has on your iMac.
5. You're done now

I don't think 10.2.8 has the migration assistant.

[Tsilou B.]

If her hard drive is large enough to hold all the files from your iMac, you can clone your Mac by connecting the cube to your iMac with a Firewire cable and then holding down "T" while booting up the cube.
You will see her hard drive on the desktop of your iMac. If it has the same name as your own hard drive, rename it so you won't mistake one hard drive for the other one later. Copy all her important files to your iMac, then download Carbon Copy Cloner from

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

and use that application to clone your drive to her drive. Then simply disconnect the cube and restart it - voilà.

[susanann]

Originally Posted by Tsilou B.

If her hard drive is large enough to hold all the files from your iMac, you can clone your Mac by connecting the cube to your iMac with a Firewire cable and then holding down "T" while booting up the cube.
You will see her hard drive on the desktop of your iMac. If it has the same name as your own hard drive, rename it so you won't mistake one hard drive for the other one later. Copy all her important files to your iMac, then download Carbon Copy Cloner from

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

and use that application to clone your drive to her drive. Then simply disconnect the cube and restart it - voilà.

Ah! this sounds interesting. I use CCC for my back-ups so I have it on this computer. (Now watch me end up with her hard drive on mine. ARghhhhh!!!!)