Trouble with Migration Assistant! Please help!

My G-4 (OS 9.2.1) flat screen went dark. I want to transfer important files from the G-4 Tower to my new I-Mac OS X (10.4.9). I launch Migration Assistant from the I-Mac. I've got the firewire connected from the G-4 to the I-Mac. I restart the G-4 and hold the T-key on the keyboard down during startup. The Migration Assistant software on the I-Mac indicates it's waiting for the "disks" to appear --- and they don't appear. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

There's no need to use the migration assistant to move OS 9 stuff. Just boot the iMac, hook up the G4 to the iMac, boot the G4 in TDM mode, and when its HD pops up on the iMac's screen, double-click on it, and drag & drop everything from it to the iMac. IIRC, the migration assistant only deals with OS X.

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