[Ham-Mac] Lion Migration. Long..

[Bob Nielsen]

When I migrated from Tiger (PPC) to Snow Leopard (Intel) several months ago, I was able to share the drives on the old machine in Finder via the network and drag the apps from one to the other.  It (mostly) worked.  I have found a few (non-ham) apps which quit working when I went from Snow Leopard to Lion.  Fortunately the authors have released updates and I am back in business,  but I wonder if I should have just stuck with 10.6.  Most of the new stuff I probably will never use.  I'm using a generic Logitech mouse with my Mini and it doesn't have the option to revert to the "normal" scrolling method but slowly I am adapting.

73,
Bob, N7XY

On Jul 31, 2011, at 9:00 AM, N2FQ wrote:

> 
> Hello 
> , just wanted to summarize my experience migrating from Leopard on a PPC
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> to a new 27 Lion machine. Meaning that the new machine already came with 
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> Lion preinstalled.
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> Wow! is that screen big or what and crisp. 
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> Well, when you first boot up Lion it asks if want to migrate from a pc or other Mac.
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> The migration asssitant doesnot communicate with the one in the ppc.
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> Applecare say it know about it  and that I have to purchase a Firewire cable.
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> Note that the old ppc Firewire is 400 and the new Firewire is 800
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> and the cable have different size connectors on either end.
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> 
> OK now both machines connected, Migration Assistant told to migrate from
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> archive, disk drive. All is working FB.  But ,, hey. it copied the user settings and 
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> applications. That is NOT good since ppc apps can't run inder Intel.
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> 
> A format and fresh reinstall over the internet is an overnight thing.
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> So if you are thinking of migrating from your old ppc G5, thread carefully.
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> Seems rhat my old machine of 5 years is history.
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> 
> 
> Fernando N2FQ/6
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