Connecting two iMac with?

So I have a 27inch retina imac and a mid-2011 21.5inch iMac. I want to use the 2011 iMac as a external display (target mode?) to my 27inch.
I have tried using the mini display port to hdmi adaptor but it won't recognise the external monitor. I thought mini display port works with thunderbolt?
do i need to get the thunderbolt cable from apple? I need to confirm this because the thunderbolt cable is pretty expensive!
and my iMacs operating system is yosemite.
this one http://store.apple.com/au/product/MD861ZM/A/apple-thunderbolt-cable-2m-white

You need the Thunderbolt cable.
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Big one is sick, need heavy reparation. So a user of the forum recommended this:
"+Since you're able to post here, you have another Mac. You can use a FireWire cable to connect your iMac to another Mac in Target Disk Mode. This essentially turns your iMac into an expensive external HD enclosure. To boot your iMac into Target Disk Mode, start up your iMac and hold down the T key immediately after you hear the startup sound. Release it when you see the big FireWire symbol on the screen.+
+Then you can use a FireWire cable to connect your iMac to another Mac. This should mount the iMac's hard disk on the desktop of the other Mac. I suggest you use DiskWarrior to try to recover the files on your iMac's hard disk.+"
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Hi killthepixel
Both have FireWire Ports, the problem is that the Early 09 has a FireWire 800 port and the other if it's an Early white 20" has two FireWire 400 ports.
If that is the case, then you would need a 6 to 9 pin FireWire cable to connect the two systems up in Target Disk Mode.
http://www.amazon.com/Tripp-Lite-F017-006-Firewire-Hi-speed/dp/B000AAZQLI/ref=pdbxgy_e_textb
Below is the Apple Support Article for Firewire target disk mode.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
Lastly have you tried to boot and fix the sick iMac using the Install Disk that came with it.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2956
Dennis
+Message was edited by: den.thed+
+Sorry inandoutofgrace I didn't see your reply, I'm just getting real slow in my old age.+

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Sorry if this questions has been asked before but I have been browsing the web for the past 90 minutes in order to find an answer to this question - no luck so far or I am just searching with the wrong keywords.

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E' possibile collegare un iMac 27" ad un altro iMac 27", quindi utilizzarlo come monitor di visualizzazione?

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3924
Summary
With Target Display mode, you can use your 27-inch iMac with Mac OS X as an external display. Connect any computer or other device with a Mini DisplayPort to your 27-inch iMac using a Mini DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort cable or using a converter that converts other electrical, video, and audio protocols from another source device to Mini DisplayPort compliant signals. (Cables and converters available separately.)
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To start, it is considered extremely impolite to type in all capital letters as you have done. Please use all lower case, or preferably properly capitalised text, in future.
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