System Migration - Snow Leopard
I have a Mac Pro and iMac, both running Snow Leopard. I want to use System Migration to transfer my Mac Pro Data over to my iMac. I was planning to do a reformat of the iMac drive and do a fresh install of Snow Leopard. It appears my Snow Leopard disc is bad. The original Leopard disc that came with the iMac works and would allow me to do a fresh install of Leopard.
Could I then do a migration using firewire, setting the Mac Pro (Snow Leopard) as the source and the iMac with the fresh install of Leopard as the target? Would this allow me to move Snow Leopard and all my applications over to the iMac? I did the exact opposite when I bought the Mac Pro and things went perfectly, but they both were running Snow Leopard.
Would I need to deauthorize the iMac from iTunes before I do this and does that mean I have to be connected to the internet during the deauthorization?
Thanks
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