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How will YOU install Leopard?

How will YOU install Leopard on your Mac?

  • Fresh Install

    Votes: 279 48.0%

  • Archive and Install

    Votes: 100 17.2%

  • Upgrade

    Votes: 168 28.9%

  • I'm buying a new Mac that will have Leopard pre-loaded

    Votes: 24 4.1%

  • Not getting Leopard/Other

    Votes: 10 1.7%
  • Total voters
    581
thesdx said:
So, how will you get Leopard on your Mac? I'm going to do an upgrade, since it's easier and quicker.
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I would like to do a fresh install, like I did when I had windows xp. However since I bought a mac mini and it came with ilife 08 preinstalled, I would lose that $79 program and I do not want to buy another ilife 08 when I got one free with my Mac mini preinstalled. See my point? So I am forced to do a upgrade or Archive and Install. Only those options I see are for me. What do you think?
 
I think im going for a fresh install, but have a question...how do i make a backup of applications? Is it just a matter of copying the applications folder to my external disk and then its done? Or is it more complicated than that?
 
dont know if anyone has mentioned this yet but i'll upgrade so i can check out leopard straight away and get my first TM backup done, then do a fresh install and transfer all my files from my cloned backup.
 
WizardHunt said:
I would like to do a fresh install, like I did when I had windows xp. However since I bought a mac mini and it came with ilife 08 preinstalled, I would lose that $79 program and I do not want to buy another ilife 08 when I got one free with my Mac mini preinstalled. See my point? So I am forced to do a upgrade or Archive and Install. Only those options I see are for me. What do you think?
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Archive and install has always worked fine for me -- I'd say in your case that's the safest option.

If you did a fresh install, you might be able to install iLife from your original system disks. You also might be able to back up your apps to an external HD and then copy them back over to your new applications folder one by one. But some apps probably will need to be reinstalled. I don't know if iLife falls into that category.

Why not do an archive and install on your first try, and if you're not satisfied with the results, *then* do a fresh install?
 
Archive & Install for me.

I'll let it preserve user data. If anything behaves oddly on login, I've always got the ability to create a new user account to isolate the problem.

That said, I'll also do a full SuperDuper backup before doing anything. In case anything catastrophic happens, I'll have something to fall back to!
 
Straight Upgrade I see no sense in doing anything else.

If its gonna break its gonna break better test it to its limits at the start.

My Tiger installation is not that old and therefore wont benefit much from a fresh install. I upgraded from Panther to Tiger by mistake rather than doing Archive and Install and had no problems at all in 2005.

HOWEVER ;) I will have my external bootable image and superduper ready to go just in case . Might remove my one mail plugin and clear caches before I put in the Leopard disk though :rolleyes:
 
I shall be putting a fresh install on a new 200gb disk (that I am yet to buy), does anyone know how much 7.5k rpm vs 5.4k rpm will affect a macbook battery life?
 
Upgrade - it's the quickest and easiest way. And if it does go all pear shaped, you still have the fall-back option of a clean install.
 
Fresh Install for me. Though my Tiger install is still as solid as ever, I like the feeling of a new system. And it allays my fears of all the "gunk" I think is "clogging" up my system. (Yes I know there is none, but meh.... Old windows habits/presuppositions die hard)

Oh and btw, you can install your iLife from your previous system disk. Just put the "Restore" disk in and choose install other apps or something like that. So those of you with iLife '08 (lucky lucky people you...) don't have to worry about losing it.
 
Interesting. Only ~6% was holding off getting a mac preloaded with leopard? I would've thought that'd be higher.

Now I got to make up my damn mind about an iMac or another iMac!
 
Upgrade.

I've only had my MBP for a couple of weeks, so not a lot of garbage to contend with, unless you count the Adobe Master Collection, which took four days to install (it seemed).
 
clean install

i've had my macs for over 6 months, and they've gotten really clogged up...this is the excuse i've been waiting for to wipe my hard drives and start again

hopefully i'll be buying an external hard drive to facilitate this and to use time machine:p
 
I'll probably do an upgrade. I have loads of programs installed that I can't be bothered reinstalling and not much junk in random folders. I'm not sure how archive and install works, nobody's ever explained it properly to make me feel safe about using it to keep all my stuff.
 
Eric Lewis said:
how does a upgrade work? will it f**k up my Mac?
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haha this is what i've wanted to know, if I will loose any of my music. Everyone here seems too interested in describing how they are going to do their switch. All I want is a simple answer haha
 
Fresh install for me.

I'll do a clone with super duper to an external hard drive. Install and start the long process of installing all my apps. I really would like to do an upgrade, but I've got too much junk that I never use. This will be my excuse for cleaning it out
 
magnagardner said:
will Archive and Install keep applications that I have lost the install disc for?
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Yes it will. It places your old system in a folder and keeps everything else intact.

Bmoney017 said:
haha this is what i've wanted to know, if I will loose any of my music. Everyone here seems too interested in describing how they are going to do their switch. All I want is a simple answer haha
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You shouldn't lose any files, but "upgrade" installs have been problematic and extremely SLOW in the past. My understanding is that the Tiger upgrade went better than previous editions, but I never upgraded to Tiger -- I bought a new computer with Tiger preinstalled.
 
Bmoney017 said:
haha this is what i've wanted to know, if I will loose any of my music. Everyone here seems too interested in describing how they are going to do their switch. All I want is a simple answer haha
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Archive and install only replaces the OSX system files. Files like your music, movies, applications, emails, address book entries...you get the idea) will remain untouched.

I have done this option on lots of Macs and most of the times it went through perfect.
 
Ice-Cube said:
Archive and install only replaces the OSX system files. Files like your music, movies, applications, emails, address book entries...you get the idea) will remain untouched.

I have done this option on lots of Macs and most of the times it went through perfect.
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Wow! After using Windows and the h*ll of upgrading/reinstalling, it is nice to see OS X might actually work well..? Here's to hoping... So, sounds like the archive option is the best as it simply removes/replaces the system files and leaves all else installed...? Sure this isn't too good to be true? ;)
Thanks!
 
i think after reading alot in this thread, i'm going to do a fresh install, but i wonder why is it much better than archive and install?? will it go faster??
 
Fresh Install.

I've ordered a 160GB 7200RPM laptop drive from Newegg for my MacBook, and I'm just going to do a clean install on the new drive, and keep the old drive as a backup in case there are any major issues in Leopard.
 
I am going to do a fresh install. I have some quirkiness that I can't figure out (Clock & Airport meter will not stay on the menu bar), so I figure after 18-months, my MacBook Pro needs a cleaning. I'll use Carbon Copy Cloner to make the backup to my firewire drive, and I have all my needed media (iWork, iLife, et al).

:cool:
 
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