help with complex restore

[visiondr]

Originally Posted by dnanian

That sounds pretty reasonable, yes. Although why not repair the mini directly from the MacBook, rather than starting it up from the image? And, once done, you can restore directly from image -> mini from the Macbook, no?

Good question. Unfortunately (again with the "unfortunately") the MacBook is Intel-based and the Mini is a G4 so. For that reason I don't think the Mini will be able to boot from the MacBook. Or will it? I fired up the MacBook in target disc mode and then tried to start the Mini using the MacBook as System. This didn't work. Does that make sense? Before I try anything else, though, I'll double check this by connecting the Mini and the MacBook and restart the Mini with "option" key held down. Though I doubt that will work for the same reason as I mentioned earlier.

Ron