I have a early 2008 mac pro upgraded to 14 gigs of ram running lion
I am planning to upgrade mountain lion with a fresh install onto a new 256gb SSD hard drive, and then adding a new 1 tb 7200 hard drive to sled 2, and retiring my stock hard drive. I will also be adding windows 7 bootcamped onto the ssd drive. Please note that the files i wish to keep (pictures, docs and music, are backed up on a separate hard drive)
I got some advice on the mac pro forums, however i would like to ask for a confirmation that the steps i plan for upgrading will work ok.
I'm pretty sure this will work ok, but i would appreciate it if you could confirm that this will work, or if it would be smarter to make the mountain lion usb installer, replace my hard drive with the new ssd in sled 1, and then just hold down option when i boot up and install mountain lion onto the new SSD ( i believe it will be labeled as 'recovery partition')
Advice is def appreciated, thank you.
I am planning to upgrade mountain lion with a fresh install onto a new 256gb SSD hard drive, and then adding a new 1 tb 7200 hard drive to sled 2, and retiring my stock hard drive. I will also be adding windows 7 bootcamped onto the ssd drive. Please note that the files i wish to keep (pictures, docs and music, are backed up on a separate hard drive)
I got some advice on the mac pro forums, however i would like to ask for a confirmation that the steps i plan for upgrading will work ok.
1- I will be creating a mountain lion installer on a bootable usb drive (just incase). although i have to torrent the lion installer (stupid app store..) i will also be making an bootable iso installer on a dvd of lion, and an ISO of windows 7 installer.
2- Power down, install the new 256g SSD into sled 2, and power back up.
3- Run the mountain lion installer, and target the new SSD drive in sled 2 as the instillation drive (volume)
4- Once the install is complete, power down, remove the stock drive with os x lion in sled 1, and replace it with the new SSD drive with mountain lion. Then put the new 1 tb drive into sled 2.
5- Run boot camp and install windows 7 onto the new SSD drive. I believe at this point bootcamp will allow me to determine the size of the partition, so that it would not have been necessary for me to partition it before hand.
6- once both os x mountain lion and windows 7 are installed, set up time machine and have it use the 1 tb drive to store the back up files.
7- install my new radeon 6870
I'm pretty sure this will work ok, but i would appreciate it if you could confirm that this will work, or if it would be smarter to make the mountain lion usb installer, replace my hard drive with the new ssd in sled 1, and then just hold down option when i boot up and install mountain lion onto the new SSD ( i believe it will be labeled as 'recovery partition')
Advice is def appreciated, thank you.