ethernet Migration Assistant

[Lee3]

I bought that cable from monoprice and everything went smooth with Migration Assistant. Then I used it for my external hard drive that is firewire 400.

[Winston]

My old TiBook has 10BaseT, really slow.

Get the FireWire cable and either use Target Disk mode or set up FW networking (doesn't require a restart).


Good luck.

- Winston

[Grateful11]

I used MA when I backed up my Macbook recently and wiped the HD
and did full install. The MA assistant worked great it migrated everything
actually a little moe than I wanted. I was mainly wanting to migrate
Address Book, Mail messages and such but it did Apps and all but not
my Firefox Bookmarks. Don't know what happened there, had to transfer
FF Bookmarks from my Mini but still lost a lot Bookmark that were
special to my MacBook. I was impressed at how well it worked.

[Fritz]

I think after today she'll get the cable.
What a fargin mess!!!
The root had all kinna docs n folders in it.
Moved that stuff and went to DU to repair perms.
Missing BsgSystem.pkg. Found n moved that. Rebooted. Repaired.
Now MA finally saw the pbook. Connected and disconnected after a few minutes of spinning.
I fergot about suggesting MonoPrice. But I can't imagine OWC is much more.
I bet you're right in that it prolly is 10bT. That'd be amazing to connect let alone transfer.

[kj4btkljv]

Winston wrote:
My old TiBook has 10BaseT, really slow.

No Titanium Powerbook ever had only 10baseT networking. They all had at least 10/100, and the later ones even introduced gigabit. Sure you're not talking about a G3 Powerbook?

Jeff

[M A V I C]

Honestly, I think using MA from a PPC Tiger machine to an Intel Snow machine is asking for problems. I just did it a bit ago between two Intel 10.5.8 machines and decide it was worth just starting from scratch.

I wish one could be more selective about what gets copied over.

kj4btkljv wrote:
[quote=Winston]
My old TiBook has 10BaseT, really slow.

No Titanium Powerbook ever had only 10baseT networking. They all had at least 10/100, and the later ones even introduced gigabit. Sure you're not talking about a G3 Powerbook?

Jeff
Agreed

[Winston]

kj4btkljv wrote:
[quote=Winston]
My old TiBook has 10BaseT, really slow.

No Titanium Powerbook ever had only 10baseT networking. They all had at least 10/100, and the later ones even introduced gigabit. Sure you're not talking about a G3 Powerbook?

Jeff
I was confused. I got the PB at about the same time as a G3 iBook. Pretty sure the iBook had 10bT. (Checked: it was 10/100bT.) I used it until the video card died. My son used the TiBook until he got a MacBook. I was sure the TiBook had slower ethernet, but this says it has Gigabit ethernet (but only USB 1.1):
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/po...4_667.html

Even my old G4 Cube has 10/100bT.

I use the TiBook on wireless exclusively. I don't think I have ever had it on my home network on ethernet, only on hotel ethernet connection for internet. Will have to try it one day (after I get a desktop which has 1000bT!).

I can say that ethernet on 100bT (the Cube and a G4 iMac) is too slow to comfortably do a migration, but it works well for sharing files.

Thanks for the correction.

- Winston

[Fritz]

whatever bT it is, I'm hoping she's along to the FW800/400 adapulator.
And perhaps, with luck, that'll fly.

[Fritz]

bought the 800/400 wire and she is up and running as straight transfers.
Gave up on MA.

[Speedy]

Don’t run Migration Assistant to transfer everything via Firewire after a fresh install of Tiger 10.4.0 until you update Tiger to 10.4.11 via Software Update.

I use Migration Assistant (MA) to back-up my computer because cloning using any method fails because I have some unfindable corrupt files.

However, the last few times I tried this method of back-up MA failed (I don’t back up often enough…) I can install a system (Tiger) on my G5’s external Firewire back-up hard drive using the retail Tiger install disk, reformatting the hard drive first. Then I move all my data from the hard drive by letting the new install of Tiger auto-run MA upon reboot of the new system install but, after an hour or so, it would cause a kernel panic before completing the data transfer.

I thought it must be more file corruption screwing up the Firewire transfer. So I thought I would just try moving my Network Settings and also Users using the auto-run. That worked fine - so far. After MA is finished and then moving to the Finder I would run MA again (located in the Utilities folder of the Applications folder.) All that remained to transfer was Files and Volumes as well as Applications. So I let MA do its thing. And I get another kernel panic :-( Ok, so I reformat and reinstall and try the same technique except I manually move apps and old files. Not a good way to do things so I am back to square one.

I have spent most of two days trying to make this work. Fortunately I have another Mac to use while I leave the G5 unattended as MA runs and panics.

But this time I reformat but don’t transfer files using MA except for network settings and users (because this part worked before.) Then I run Software Update right away from the Finder. And I notice that one of the updates is to Migration Assistant regarding Firewire transfers!! I let Software Update install all the updates needed to bring the OS to 10.4.11. Then I run MA from the Finder and install the Applications as well as the Files and Volumes. Finally it works and all is well.