Upgrade to Tiger help

Hello All,
I have a quick question that hopefully has a quick solution. I am trying to upgrade an older G4 tower with 10.2 on it to Tiger. The problem, I have Tiger and the rest of my applications on an external hard drive and is a bootable copy. I trie4d hooking it up to the tower and wanted to use migration assistant to bring over the information from the external, however, there is no migration assistant! How did people running 10.2 back in the day do it? Specifically, what is the easiest way to bring a complete bootable system over from on a external firewire harddrive and load it onto the tower, that is currently running an older OS.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

If you can boot from external drive, a no cost way of achieving your goal would be to boot from the Tiger drive and then use Disc Utility to do a Restore. This will make an exact copy of your external drive onto the internal. Super Duper does basically the same thing, and is a terrific program because it also allows you to do incremental backups - which Restore does not. But if you don't want to spend the money, I have never had restore fail to give me a perfect copy. If you do boot from the Tiger drive, repair permissions and run a utility like Mac Janitor or Onyx before you make your copy. Restore isn't the fastest program in the world, but is very reliable.

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