I'm hoping someone can help me out with this.  I recently picked up two Power Macintosh 6100's.  One is a 6100/66AV with an upgraded 4 Gig hard drive.  However it currently has 9.1 installed.  The other 6100 has 7.6 installed, but I didn't get any disks with it.  I'd like to clone the smaller drive over to the larger one using my eMac if possible, or by creating a bootable cd of the entire sytem 7.6 drive.  I've tried searching the net, but can't find any articles that match exactly.  Does anyone know how to go about doing this?

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I'm hoping someone can help me out with this.  I recently picked up two Power Macintosh 6100's.  One is a 6100/66AV with an upgraded 4 Gig hard drive.  However it currently has 9.1 installed.  The other 6100 has 7.6 installed, but I didn't get any disks with it.  I'd like to clone the smaller drive over to the larger one using my eMac if possible, or by creating a bootable cd of the entire sytem 7.6 drive.  I've tried searching the net, but can't find any articles that match exactly.  Does anyone know how to go about doing this?

There are several ways to approach this. The best long term solution and insurance against system problems is to try and locate an OS 7.6 installer CD. eBay, LowEndMac Swaplist, and our own Classified section are easy places to begin a search.

You could pull the hard drive from one of the 6100s, change its SCSI id. You could then temporarily replace the CD ROM in the other 6100 with the pulled drive. Then you would have a 6100 with two internal hard drives and you could move things around as you wish.

The 6100 has an AAUI port, which used with a transceiver makes it pretty straight forward to connect it to a network. From a network files share can be enabled and the contents of the drives can be changed around. If you only have one transceiver, you can copy files to the eMac and the use the transceiver with the other 6100 to copy the files from the eMac to the second 6100.

If the eMac is running OS X, and has a CD burner, you can create bootable CDs with software included with OS X. Information about creating CDs useful in OS 7.6 with and OS X machine is found in the System7Today Help Center, linked at the bottom of the page. If you are using OS 9 you may need to use third party burning software such as toast.

If you provide a bit more information about how you are currently set up with your systems, and how you wish to eventually get the systems setup it will be easier to provide helpful information.

bill