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Upgrading to Leopard?
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Well, how would I go about doing that? I have a computer on my home network that I backup all my files too. How would I get those files onto that computer, then back to mine after the install?
So, no external hard drive?
You may be able to mount the hard drive on the network computer as a local drive (Do not remember how to do that unfortunately) and then use CarbonCopy Cloner to clone your drive over to that. Though really, the best way is to use an external. Besides you will want one for Time Machine anyway.
I might be able to get a external between now and when I get Leopard(sometime in mid December). Does anyone know how to mount a network drive as a local drive? I'll try and google it.
If you get an external drive, then backup and do a fresh install. Otherwise, I wouldn't worry. An Archive & Install will work just fine.
When I switched to Leopard, I just popped the disk in and followed the default prompts. I didn't archive/install, but it certainly is prudent to have your hard drive backed up. It went very well and I've not had a single problem with Leopard.
I back up using Super Duper, which makes a fully bootable cloned image. IIUC, you can reformat the partition you're going to use, do a clean install of Leopard on it, and use Migration Assistant to automatically restore your users and files from the backed up disk image.
I back up using Super Duper, which makes a fully bootable cloned image. IIUC, you can reformat the partition you're going to use, do a clean install of Leopard on it, and use Migration Assistant to automatically restore your users and files from the backed up disk image.