Can I link an OS10.4.11 Mini to a new Mini with Lion?

After lightning fried the video card in my Mini, which runs Tiger, I'm looking at a new Mini. My question is: Can I link the old Mini to the new one and use it as a back-up hard drive and CD/DVD burner? What do I need to do to make it work? Aside from the video card issue, everything else seems to be in working order, just no color on the display. Also, I have an old iMac drive (OX 9) in a Mini Stack case hooked to my current Mini. Can I still use that for data storage too, or are 3 different operating systems just going to screw up everything?

You can either boot the old Mac mini in 'FireWire Target Disk Mode' which turns it in to a glorified hard disk, or you can boot it but have Screen Sharing turned on so you can remotely control it from the new Mac.
When it is booted in FireWire Target Disk Mode all disks on it will appear on your new Mac. You would plug it in to the new Mac via a FireWire cable. With Screen Sharing you would access it over Ethernet not FireWire.

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