Transferring info from G4 to mini

I have a G4 and have both system 9.2.1 and 10.3.9 loaded. My hard drive has been making funny noises so I bought a mini to transfer everything over because this was about the same price as getting my current hard drive fixed. I also liked the idea of just transferring everything to the mini easily. Right. I am not able to restart into firewire mode to do this. But after posting this problem on the mini discussion board I have figured out that I have a PCI Graphics model which doesn't allow me to reboot into Target Disk Mode. so someone suggested putting the mini in target mode and mounting it onto the G4 and then transferring data. Has anyone done this? Is it as easy as "they" say of am I opening yet another can of worms?

My G4 is making on again off again loud fan sounds that I had repaired about a year ago. I spoke with the tech and he suggested getting a mini which would be faster and better for a little more money that repairing the G4. I thought this would be an easy process but is turning into a big deal-should have known anything with the computer would be a time consuming switch. So mounting the G4 on the mini is not a good idea?

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