[Ham-Mac] Lion Migration. Long..

[T. Joseph Carter]

Yes, Lion finally drops the support for PowerPC apps.  It was a 
downloadable option under 10.6.  You can transfer home directories 
from an older machine, but applications are going to cause problems 
if you try to transfer those.

The good news is that nearly all of your old PowerPC apps have Intel 
counterparts today, and your preferences from the old machine will 
work fine.  The bad news is that most of the upgrades won’t be free, 
of course.

It is possible to create a USB stick to reinstall Lion, and I suggest 
doing so.  There also should have been a recovery image on the 
machine you could have reinstalled from without the very long 
download.

Hope some of that helps!

Joseph - kf7qzc


On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 09:00:54AM -0700, N2FQ wrote:
>
>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.
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>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
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>and the cable have different size connectors on either end.
>
>
>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.
>
>
>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.
>
>Seems rhat my old machine of 5 years is history.
>
>
>
>Fernando N2FQ/6
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