November 26, 2005
Machine migration
Possibly the easiest migration ever?
Moving from one Powerbook to another identical Powerbook was as simple as ABC:
- join the machines with a firewire cable
- boot the destination machine in firewire target mode (hold down T on boot)
- tell carbon copy cloner on the source machine to copy everything onto the target firewire drive
Ok, it took the best part of four hours to copy the drives (about 70gb of data). But when it was done, I was able to boot the destination machine and carry on right where I left off, as though nothing had happened.
(That's a slight exaggeration: two things needed fixing. First, for some reason, the built-in OS X battery indicator had returned on the destination machine. I use SlimBatteryMonitor, so I had to uncheck 'Show battery status in the menu bar' in the Energy Saver system preferences. Secondly, SMARTReporter noticed that the hard disk was actually a slightly different make, and asked me to confirm my preferences. And then there was the usual iTunes FoulPlay nonsense.)
Posted by savs at November 26, 2005 2:39 PM