Re: put system drive from g3 into g4

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 Buttnuts <leaderbuilder@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> I have an old G3 that I've used for some legacy graphic arts stuff and
> testing and someone offered me a Powermac G4 box missing the HDD and
> CDROM.
> Can I simply put my old OSX 10.4 HDD and CD/DVD drive  into the new
> machine and go?

I did this with 10.2 going from a Beige G3 to a G4/Digital Audio. The G4 
did have a larger HD in it and I did just copy everything over, planning 
on reinstalling the OS...I just wanted to make certain I had all of the 
user stuff. But the OS worked fine and I didn't have any problems with 
it.

I think as long as OS X is installed from retail CD's, this should work 
(assuming the same architecture is kept, PPC to PPC or Intel to 
Intel...no experience with 10.5...)

YMMV...

Greg B.

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