mac os full install or upgrade?

[marksandvig]

Recently my MacBook has been lagging a bit and I wanted to do a reformat.. It came with tiger originally and I bought the family license for leopard.. can I do a fresh installl from that cd alone or must I find my tiger discs and then upgrade .. I'd kinda like to do a full install of leopard if possible

 

[marksandvig]

mainly i was wondering how iLife would work out because i obviously only have iLife 06

 

[miles01110]

You can do a Leopard install from the Leopard disc.

 

[robbieduncan]

You can do a Leopard install from the Leopard disc.

And then restore the bundled software (including iLife) from the restore DVD that came with the machine.

 

[MisterMe]

Recently my MacBook has been lagging a bit and I wanted to do a reformat.. It came with tiger originally and I bought the family license for leopard.. can I do a fresh installl from that cd alone or must I find my tiger discs and then upgrade .. I'd kinda like to do a full install of leopard if possible

Reinstalling the OS is a Windows solution to a Windows problem. On the Mac, it is a complete and total waste of time in 99.99% of cases. The most serious maintenance that you should ever need to do is to run fsck -fy from the commandline in Single-User Mode.

 

[marksandvig]

The most serious maintenance that you should ever need to do is to run fsck -fy from the commandline in Single-User Mode.

is that the same as repairing permissions? or is the fsck-fy more thorough?

 

[robbieduncan]

is that the same as repairing permissions? or is the fsck-fy more thorough?

Repairing permissions does just that: repairs the files permissions. fsck does a lower-level file system check and repair