Leopard: Upgrade from Tiger or Fresh Install?

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I haven't had any problems with "Upgrades" at all.. and some on boxes the "Upgraded" from Jaguar -> Panther -> Tiger.

That being said, what I will do, and encourage you to do the same:

Get an external HD.

Use SuperDuper to clone your boot device to the external HD.

Confirm that it is a bootable, functional, full backup.

Wipe the boot drive and install Leopard.

During the initial account creation process, you will be asked if you want to import data from another drive.

Guess what? You do!

Use your bootable, full backup, to import your previous data into your new Leopard install.

If Leopard isn't working out for you or you want to wait until the first patch, you can always go back to your bootable, full backup.

The best of all worlds.







I have spoken.

 

[jonnylink]

Is that even available now? I thought it was read only so far.

Read/write works. No boot yet that I know of, but I just have to assume that once it hits stores Leopard with fully support ZFS.

http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/16/1437226
or
https://www.macrumors.com/2007/06/26/zfs-read-write-developer-beta/

 

[MacHipster]

I understand what you mean there... I feel the same way. My real question is, is that real or perceived?? In other words, is that a practice we picked up from M$ winblows, and not needed with OSX? Is there any *REAL* advantage, other than not having to reinstall apps and move data?

I'm afraid I have no honest way of answering that. I think it may be a habit that I picked up from using Windows and very well may be a placebo. I must admit that I've never done an archive and install, so my feedback is suspect.