Q: Needing LOTS of help setting up an eMac...
I just purchased an eMac surplus from a local school district (meaning no back up nor boot disks) the specs: Mac OS X version 10.6.4 Tiger. Power PC G4 1.42GHz processor, minimum of 256 mb DDR PC 3200 memory(ram), 80 GB hard drive, CD-RW/DVD ROM...
I need lots of help... I already own a MacBook running 10.5.8 Leopard... Now I know that I cannot run Snow Leopard on the eMac however, I want to run Leopard (I know that I need to upgrade my RAM, which I'll be doing next week) and upload the info from my TimeMachine so that I can have the programs I need to work (GarageBand, Photoshop, etc.) So is this possible? If so, how do I set this up? My TimeMachine is NOT by firewire its USB 2.0? And finally, can I partition the hard drive to run both Tiger & Leopard??? If so, how do I do that?
I turned it on but made no decisions for the settings... Have I messed up? Can I just turn it off without messing up anything since I don't the boot disks (I realized I should probably wait once I noticed that the option to partition was necessary @ startup)?
Please help me!!!
Thanks in advance!
L
eMac 1.42 GHz 80GB, Mac OS X (10.4.1)
Posted on Apr 20, 2011 12:06 PM
Hi Icy,
You can contact Apple at 1 800 MY APPLE and ask for software sales to see if they have anymore
OS X 10.5 Leopard retail disks in stock. You'll pay Apple's original price of $129 instead of the waaay inflated
prices from third party resellers.
Also, your eMac can take 2 GB of RAM. I would max the RAM out as OS X Leopard needs as much RAM as it can get.
Once you've obtained a retail DVD disk of OS X leopard and upgraded the memory in your eMac,
I would do a complete clean install of OS X Leopard.
If you want to partition the drive before the installation, you can use the Disk Utility app on the OS X disk
when you boot the disk. Once you have booted from disc and the Finder appears, look in the Applications folder>
Utilities folder for the Disk Utility app and launch it. From there you should be able to setup partitions for the drive.
Once you've done this and installed OS X 10.5, you have two choices. If you have a 9 pin to 6 pin FireWire cable you could start your eMac in FireWire Target Disk Mode and select the target Mac that has the data to migrate from.
Here's the procedure.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1661
Your eMac has USB 2.0 ports so if you have a proper USB cable, you should be able to transfer your Time Machine data/backups from your MacBook to the eMac. You cannot do a restore of the OS, obviously since your MacBook has Snow Leopard and the eMac has just Leopard. The OSes have to be compatible in order to do a restore of an OS from Time Machine. You should, however, be able to transfer all of your data and, I think, your applications as well.
Keep in mind that if you have applications that run specifically on OS X Snow Leopard or aren't universal PPC/ Intel apps, these may or may not transfer or work on the eMac.
I haven't put Time Machine to use as I do fairly regular manual backups of my data and never seen a reason to use it myself.
Here's a link that may help you with using TM do transfer your Macbook's data to the eMac.
http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/363711/time-machine-restore-to-another-compu ter/
Posted on Apr 20, 2011 9:02 PM