Trouble transferring files etc from old iMac to G4.

My friend has an old CRT iMac, not sure of the precise model but it's one the fruit coloured ones running OS 10.1. She's upgrading to my old flat panel G4 iMac running 10.4.11 but we've had trouble transferring her files, settings etc. First we tried using an ethernet cable but migration assistant on the G4 told us we needed to use firewire. She's bought a firewire cable, plugged it in & opened migration asst on the G4 but is getting no response at all. Could anyone advise us on what she should be doing please?
Thanks,
Janet.

By no response I mean no error message, no recognition at all by either iMac.
That sounds like a problem with getting FireWire Target Disk Mode going on the iMac G3. Be sure to review the article I linked to previously, and make sure the iMac can startup in the mode where you see the FireWire logo bouncing around the screen.
Note: If that iMac is one of the early slot-loader iMac G3 models, it needs to have +Firmware version 2.4 or later+ for FireWire Target Disk Mode to work (as noted in the article). So the Mac OS X version (even though it is old) will not prevent FireWire Target Disk Mode from working, but the firmware version may. If you can run System Profiler on that iMac G3, it should say what firmware version it has now (it may be called +Boot ROM+ ).

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