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adskin80
Oct 29, 2007, 03:34 PM
Hi guys,

I ordered Leopard through the up-to-date program. It arrived this morning and I installed it about an hour ago. so far so good, although it takes a lot longer to boot up.

Anyway, I would just like to now. If at sometime in the future I would like to do a clean install, is it possible just to use the Leopard DVD, or would I have to install Tiger then upgrade to Leopard?

Thanks


enklined
Oct 29, 2007, 03:59 PM
I'd like to know the answer to this, too. Anyone know?
Sun Baked
Oct 29, 2007, 04:07 PM
Just wait.

Leopard does take awhile to boot up the first few times, it mentioned something about building the boot cache.

Right now it is taking my machine about a second longer to boot into Leopard.
Ctrl2k
Oct 29, 2007, 04:29 PM
Anyway, I would just like to now. If at sometime in the future I would like to do a clean install, is it possible just to use the Leopard DVD, or would I have to install Tiger then upgrade to Leopard?

Thanks

I got the disk today too. I don't need it, as I am an ADC member and I already got the GM download and the full disc is coming as well, but I booted it up anyway to take a look.

The disc definitely does an upgrade check, but the text does say something like "checking for an installation of MAC OS X 10.4 or higher"

"Or higher", is the key, as I already have Leopard installed on my machine. When I continued on, and tried to install Leopard on another disk I had hooked up, it was going to let me do an erase & install. So clearly the disk is good for reinstalls as long as you have 10.4 or later (including 10.5) installed on one of your attached disks.

I don't know what it will do if you have just a blank disk with nothing on it. I would suppose the disk wouldn't let you install.
Locker
Oct 29, 2007, 05:23 PM
I asked this question to someone via Apple Online Chat and the answer I was given was that it's actually the same DVD as the retail version and so an Erase & Install would be no problem.
drlunanerd
Oct 29, 2007, 05:44 PM
I asked this question to someone via Apple Online Chat and the answer I was given was that it's actually the same DVD as the retail version and so an Erase & Install would be no problem.

That's not entirely true. You can do an Erase & Install, but the DVD is most certainly not the same as the retail disc. We need a sticky for this information methinks (if there isn't one already) :)