How update my hardware with Leopard Server 10.5

Hello,
I have a older G4 1.25Ghz DP running Mac OS X Server 10.5 (10 Cli.) and doing his work fine... AFP, FTP, DNS, Open Directory & LDAP, iCal, Software Update, and Web services running ok.
Now I have a faster new Mac Pro and I want to replace my older G4, I think will be a procedure to migrate all my configurations in Apple way, sure ... It´s this possible?
I will apreciate very much your help!
Thanks in advance,
Felix

Unfortunately, Apple says there is no way to do this. According to them, the preferences and configurations, while on the surface are identical, somethings are different between PPC and x86 and cannot cross over. This holds true for Co-located Fail-Over Setups as well. I can believe that this is true as it is conceivable that some tings would not get 'upgraded' during the installation/upgrade and so there could be ppc code trying to run on an intel machine and making quite the mess to figure out what works and what does not...
Now having said that, when I go to an Intel setup, I will be doing the following: Mirror my current G5 system disk to the new macPro/xserve disk, and booting from DVD and trying to upgrade it. We here have nothing to lose and if it does not work/work well, I have to install fresh anyhow so it is only lost time, not lost data.
Peter

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