The good news is that Mac OS X is, for the most part, hardware independent. That is, the same OS X that runs on a PowerBook also runs on an iBook and a G4 tower. That means that you can copy Mac OS X, and all installed software and files, directly from one computer to another, and it should boot up and function properly. Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility 1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder. Select the destination volume from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (journaled, if available) and click on the Erase button. Clonezilla Clonezilla is the best and the most free disk Cloning Software For Mac. This helps the system in various aspects like metal backup, system deployment, and recovery. Here each of the file systems that would be supported is HFS+, ext, VMFS3, ext, and more. Carbon Copy Cloner is a great tool for creating a clone or copy of your hard drive (download a free trial here). Boot from your old drive by starting your computer and pressing the 'Option' key. When you see the drive listing, select the icon for your original drive.
If the machines have closer hardwares I don't think it will be a problem but i really recommend fresh install and migration assistent.
Some one suggested to use dd but this is too much for lots of people and Apple has just the tool for doing it the 'Apple way': Disk Utility. Pop the disk you want to clone, create a image with Disk Utility and then use the Restore tab to install the image back to a hard drive.
Another good thing to do, with dd or with Disk Utility is to generate a md5 hash of the image for comparation before a restore.. just to be shure everything is as was at the imaging time.
In command line just type:
md5 name_of_the_image.img
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Stretch game mac os. In Disk Utility go to the menu Images > Check Sum > Check Sum MD5 Image
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(I do not use my computer in english so it maybe not exactly like this, but it is some like this! :)
Btw, I usualy install my OS X updates using this technique: create a dvd image (I like to do this for backuping purposes), Restore the image to a HardDrive (even non-empy HDs are OK since you cant choose to not destroy any data), reboot the machine and choose to boot from the HD with the OS Installer.
It's faster then any other method I know!
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Into the union mac os. Done this from 10.2 to 10.3 to 10.4 and will do this to 10.5!