Will Migration Assistant for OS 10.4 and OS 9.1 replace the OS and files?

Migration Assistant moves only select files.

Target disk mode.

If you have a second Mac computer, you may want to try to copy over as many files you can. One way is to use target disk mode.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1661

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8443.html

"Installing OS X 10.4 'Tiger' on DVD-Challenged Macs Using FireWire Target Disk Mode"

http://lowendmac.com/misc/06/0710.html

Here is a picture of a firewire port:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/IEEE_1394_Firewire_PCI_ Expansion_Card_Digon3.jpg/800px-IEEE_1394_Firewire_PCI_Expansion_Card_Digon3.jpg

You need cloning software.

Carbon Copy Cloner will copy your startup drive to an external firewire drive. You can boot from the external drive to verify that you have a good clone. When you upgrade your existing startup drive, you can at any time boot from your external drive and go back to your existing system.

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper's built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. And it runs beautifully on both Intel and Power PC Macs!

Is there a reason you didn't update 9.1 to 9.2.1, then 9.2.2 so you can use Classic at least?

At one breif period in time. 9.1 would work as Classic, (OS9 emulation under OSX, booting natively in to OS9 doesn't require it), but complained & requires 9.2.2 for full use.

Here are all of the OS 9 updates:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1387

You must first apply 9.2.1, then 9.2.2

9.1 doesn't require any special software to copy. You may have to "bless" the software after copying. Drag some file -- system suitcase ?? -- to the outside then inside of the folder.

I suggest getting a firewire cable . Boot up the target machine in firewire mode. command + t if my memory serves me right.

as far as updates go, I doubt OS X reports a downlevel classic environment.

Robert

You need to be booted from OS9.1 to apply the update, it should not affect the 10.4 install.

Once downloaded, you then open & apply the download while in OS9.

I would now like to replace everything on the one with only 10.4 with the stuff on the one that has 10.4 and 9.1.

You indicate you would like to erase all files on the target machine.

Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities ->Disk Utility

Select the partition to erase. Notice the partition is indented under the volumn name.

Click on the erase tab on the lower right.

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For "bless" see this article.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1929

Sorry, due to bug in Jive, need to post to see latest reply. 😟

EDIT: worked.