Upgrade to Leopard from Tiger ... Cloned Disk Migration?

[eVolcre]

It's finally time to upgrade my machine to Leopard. I was waiting to first buy the MBA, then the new MBP, then was traveling and now I'm bored and figured a new OS *might* feel like a new toy for a while.

I'm going with a erase and install but wanted to confirm the exact process to make sure I'm not going to lose anything.

Going to go with an erase and install. I don't have a backup of my machine but have a cloned drive through Carbon Copy. Can I use migration assistant to bring everything over from a clone?

Do I have to do anything else manually? Applications, settings, passwords, music, photos everything comes over through migration assistant?

Thanks in advance

eV

 

[eVolcre]

A follow up question (I'm on dialup in the field and my search/google capabilities are limited)

If I do a clean install and then a migration assistant from my cloned drive, do I have to reinstall any application? iWork, iLife, MS Office etc. This would be a deal killer because I don't have any of the install discs with me at the moment.

Thanks - eV

 

[polar-blair]

Whats the point in doing a clean install then copying everything you had back to the mac in the first place, I cant see it making much difference in the end, you would probably be better off (at the moment anyway) just to upgrade the OS.

 

[eVolcre]

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. I want to do a clean install to wipe my HD for a virgin Leopard install deleting languages etc to save space.

I DEFINITELY want to copy everything I had before over to my MAC including apps, settings, documents, pictures, movies etc.