[Ham-Mac] Lion Migration. Long..

[N2FQ]

Hello 
, just wanted to summarize my experience migrating from Leopard on a PPC

to a new 27 Lion machine. Meaning that the new machine already came with 

Lion preinstalled.

Wow! is that screen big or what and crisp. 

Well, when you first boot up Lion it asks if want to migrate from a pc or other Mac.

The migration asssitant doesnot communicate with the one in the ppc.

Applecare say it know about it  and that I have to purchase a Firewire cable.

Note that the old ppc Firewire is 400 and the new Firewire is 800

and the cable have different size connectors on either end.


OK now both machines connected, Migration Assistant told to migrate from

archive, disk drive. All is working FB.  But ,, hey. it copied the user settings and 

applications. That is NOT good since ppc apps can't run inder Intel.


A format and fresh reinstall over the internet is an overnight thing.

So if you are thinking of migrating from your old ppc G5, thread carefully.

Seems rhat my old machine of 5 years is history.



Fernando N2FQ/6