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Who installed Snow Leopard without a hitch?

TuffLuffJimmy said:
No you didn't.

Normally archive and install is the default. However, with Snow Leopard, the default was "upgrade". That means it's the same System folder with many, many, many files and folders replaced. An archive and install will make an archive of your old system folder and add an entirely new system folder, hence "archive and install". There's no archive with an upgrade.
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But you are wrong. The default "upgrade" is an improved "archive and install". Improved in the sense that you don't have to clean up the old install after it is done.

So the installer installs the OS in a new System Folder and deletes the old one when done.

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sidewinder said:
But you are wrong. The default "upgrade" is an improved "archive and install". Improved in the sense that you don't have to clean up the old install after it is done.

So the installer installs the OS in a new System Folder and deletes the old one when done.

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Then how is that an archive? Seems that it just replaces the old system folder.
 
Did an upgrade. Went fine. Only issue was SL needed to add Rosetta and somehow got in some weird loop where it was trying to install Rosetta via 18 or 19 different Software Updaters. All those blue globes jumping up and down in the Dock was pretty cool looking, though. But in the end, everything went well.

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I did a clean install as well and have had absolutely no problems.

Donar said:
Did an upgrade on my MBP 2.26 without any real issue. I had to upgrade Flip4Mac afterwards and istat menus dosen't show up in the titlebar but meh...
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iStat Menus 2.0 (out now) will work with Snow Leopard.
 
I did clean installs on both my MacBook and iMac and have had no problems on either (although they run a little hotter now).

My bro did an update from Leopard on his iMac and he hasn't had any issues either.
 
I did an upgrade install on my 10-month old MBP and have had zero problems. I also did an up-to-date install on my wife's month-old MPB and she's had zero problems.
 
tecknical said:
Just wondering since I see all these thread on the forums about Snow Leopard problems, who here installed it 100% error-free?

I did a clean install (after I wiped my HDD) and I've been having no problems so far. Even did a Time Machine restore and I'm still good...
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I have installed it on 4 machines now with absolutely no problems on any of them.
 
Yup no problems here
1. Removed windows partion via bootcamp
2. Booted up via snow leoard disc
3. Erase disk via disk utilities
4. Continued to install snow leopard
5. 30min had it up n running & no multiple reboots like with windows 7 installation.

Very happy with it apart from the severly high CPU usage with flash plugin
 
Clean install (customized) this morning to a blank partition on a seldom-used external drive. Install went flawlessly. Spent a few minutes configuring some basic stuff, then rebooted to Leopard from the internal hard drive. Too much customized software and configuration to jump right in and replace the current system. Will spend the weekend installing all the software and configuring the SL partition more, but I don't expect to run it full time for a while yet. Probably not until 10.6.1, and certainly not before everything I need is confirmed to work.
 
The only thing I had to do was reinstall my printer driver!

Everything else installed without any problems (so far)
 
Plenty of problems

Lost complete usage of my (relatively new) HP LaserJet Multifunction printer. Mozy backup confused and thinks it needs to do an initial upload all over again. HP Printer Update download via Software Update had errors upon install. Had to reset both my desktop background and screen saver folder. And now when I listen to music on iTunes I can no longer control the player by clicking and holding down the cursor over the dock icon.
 
I upgraded a 2006 macbook that was running Tiger without any problems. Then I decided to get more memory (up to two gigs from 1) and get a bigger hard drive, as it was still rockin the 60 gig it came with. Reinstalled again on that blank hard drive and it went absolutely perfect.

My sister also upgraded her 2008 macbook and everything was fine, as well.
 
Had no problems whatsoever.

Did a superduper backup
Ran onyx to clean up the caches
Upgraded to snow leopard
Reboot and everything working.

Checked the logs and found I had some receipts for apps I removed a while ago which did throw up some errors in the install, but removed them, and everything running fine, and pretty snappy aswell.
 
Me too. No problems. Did a clean install and then I did a restore from a superduper clone. I did however did do some HD spring cleaning before I did the backup.

Very happy so far. I for one am pleased that Apple has looked under the hood.

I am booting into the 64 bit kernel and it's been great.
 
2006 iMac - no problem!
2008 uMB - no problem!

I did a boot install though and was worried that my data was going to be erased. But after 15 worrying minutes (it was lightning quick on the iMac) it finished and everything was good again. I did nothing to prepare either machine, no maintenance, no permission fixing. Just popped the DVD in and rebooted.
 
No problems here with the default install. I downloaded the latest flashplayer after the front page item. Safari was a bit slow to respond once (about 30sec) but recovered fine. Very pleased with it. If it had been causing trouble I would've posted, which is why the posts are generally all biased to the negative.
 
No problems to report.

Installed on 3 Macs on 1st Sept (MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacPro) and all working fine.
 
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