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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
I think I'm going with a clean install because I like knowing everything is nice and new even if it is a pain to have to reinstall everything and reconfigure all my preferences.
 
I'm selling my Dell on eBay as we speak. Auction will be over on Thursday Night. Which means I'll be buying either a MB or MBP. If the MB's are updated next week, I'll probably take one of those. But if not then I'll go for the MBP, and give Tiger one Final Boot up before I do an erase/intall.

Bring on Oct. 26!
 
I'm thinking now that I should do an Archive and Install. I've installed various haxies over time, and I'd rather play it safe.
 
If I chose Archive & Install, it would basically be an Upgrade except with the ~ 10GB of old system files from Tiger still there additionally. Is this correct?

If I found everything was running perfectly fine and decided to delete the archived Tiger folders, it would basically be as if I chose an Upgrade option from the beginning right?

So Archive & Install is basically just playing it a bit more safe but as far as my music, documents, pictures, etc they're both the same.

Am I right?
 
This may be a silly question but if I do a clean install, will I have to reauthorize my machine for the iTunes Store? It would not such a big deal but I would just like to know.
 
cuestakid said:
This may be a silly question but if I do a clean install, will I have to reauthorize my machine for the iTunes Store? It would not such a big deal but I would just like to know.
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You will have to reauthorize the machine but it won't count against your 5 machines.
 
cuestakid said:
This may be a silly question but if I do a clean install, will I have to reauthorize my machine for the iTunes Store? It would not such a big deal but I would just like to know.
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Eidorian said:
You will have to reauthorize the machine but it won't count against your 5 machines.
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De-Authorize your computer before doing a fresh install then authorize.

Little trick of the trade;)
 
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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You can make a fresh install of Leopard, after insert your Tiger DVD, install only iLife '08. Search for the package on the DVD and install it.
 
Since I just got my MBP last week, I haven't transfered any of my data onto it. I installed BC and XP just for fun (and to play orange box), but i'm just going to wipe everything and install leopard. I am going to remove iMovie, iDVD, Garageband, or iWeb, get rid of extra languages and printer drivers so OS X doesn't take up 15GB of my 120gb HDD.
 
Eidorian said:
The MAC address didn't change though.

I've reimaged and reinstalled OS X on several of my Macs and my count never went up.
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Ok you're probably right then Eidorian.I've installed Leopard,Tiger etc. on so many different machines at times it just seems that way to me.:)


[disclaimer] I installed it on different machines legally due to testing various stuff [/disclaimer]
 
I plan to wipe my drive and then do a clean install. I'll then copy over pictures/movies/iLife/other apps/etc. from my external HD, or maybe from my iBook using migration assistant. Maybe.
 
Peace said:
Ok you're probably right then Eidorian.I've installed Leopard,Tiger etc. on so many different machines at times it just seems that way to me.:)


[disclaimer] I installed it on different machines legally due to testing various stuff [/disclaimer]
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Maybe I should start using my site license disclaimer. :rolleyes:
 
well considering i didn't bring my FCS disks with me to school and i need the apps, i think either an upgrade or archive and install for both my imac and pb. I'll probably do a fresh install over Christmas break.
 
backup???

i have backup through my .mac subscription. if i back up stuff to my external hard drive through back up, then install leopard, will i be able to port over the stuff from my backup's files into leopard?
 
I don't know, what's the Best for someone who doesn't Back-Up?

This will be my first upgrading OSX. Looks like Fresh Install is THE choice here, is this enough of a reason to buy an External HDD?
 
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