moving data from 8.6 to 10.3

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Hi all,

I have a shiny titanium G4 powerbook running 10.3.

I also have an old PowerComputing PowerCenter with a G3 daughtercard running 8.6.

There are two drives, small ones (2.1 and 1.?GB) in the powercenter.

It only has serial and ethernet ports, no usb or firewire.

How can I get the drives to mount on my OSX desktop?

Or is that just asking too darn much?

TIA,
J.

jfreeman at gmail dot com
 
On your OS X machine, go into Applications > Utilities and open "Directory Access."

Under the "Services" pane of Directory Access, make sure that AppleTalk is checked. After that, you should be able to connect to the 8.6 machine.
 
And, you should be able to get to the files on the old system, by connecting both machines with an ethernet patch cable (should not need a cross-over, just a standard patch cable) turn on file sharing on the old system. Make sure that ethernet is set in your Appletalk control Panel. Probably best to reboot the 8.6 system after making these changes. The powerbook shouldn't need a reboot. And choose Connect to Server in the G4 Go menu, and you should see that old system show up in your server list.
 
I know you can set a laptop to be a firewire hard drive (by pressing "T" on reboot); can you do this with a regular desktop computer? I know it wouldn't help in this case, but I am curious…
 
Sure, FireWire target boot mode is not specific to just laptops. That's how the recent software migration tool on a new G5 works.
 
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