How do I install OS 10.4 on tower and pull everything from a G5 hard drive in an enclosure?

My iMac G5 logic board fried. I'll take out the hard drive, put it in an enclosure and try to move everything to my spare G4 Mac tower. I'll install 10.4, but how do I get it to pull everything from the G5 hard drive in the enclosure?

Oh, you can see it in Finder, I thought it didn't show up at all. Creating a new user with admin powers is probably the best you can do, pull all the data etc from the external and assign it to the new user, then, if you have nothing else on the tower, use the new identity as your main one.  If you do have data you need already on the tower, drag the important stuff into the new Admin account.
Let me know if this works for you,

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