Installing Leopard

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:14 pm

Frodo wrote:8 hours? Heavens to Murgatroid!!

Tell me-- what exactly did you do? An Update Install? An Archive Install?...

I was on TIger 10.3.8 and did an archive install to my clone. It went well and still works. But my main drive had 10.4.9 and continues to fail the install. Migration Assistant won't pull my emails over, so I'm going to have to hand copy those files somehow. Yikes.

I reinstalled Tiger, but it also failed to see my USER folders properly. This is a royal PITA, dude. Thanks for the info. I've seen most of those reports. I'll see if there are other messages I haven't spotting in your list.

OTOH, this should be the worst problem in one's life! I heaqr the news and see people so much less fortunate that I just cannot get too bummed about this. Besides, didn't loose a note of my music.

SixStringGeek · Post by **SixStringGeek** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:34 am

You people are much more brave than I.

I'll likely install L on my work laptop in about a week. Its not going anywhere near the dual quad anytime soon. I'm in the middle of stuff and unless I hear something like it radically improves CPU loading or something, I don't need it.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:52 am

SixStringGeek wrote:You people are much more brave than I...

Brave? Or dumb? It's nearly 2AM and I'm copying files. With a session on Sunday, I cannot sleep until this is corrected.

Oh well...

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:39 pm

I think it's more a matter of taking a wise and informed approach. I agree that needless updates should be avoided, but there's more to the Mac than DP. This is why I've added a new hard drive just to deal with Leopard developments, but I probably won't fuss with DP in Leopard for a little while yet. I'm still waiting for DP to catch up with Tiger, but at least in Tiger I know where DP excels and where it falls down.

After a summer of headaches, I was quite ready for any solution to come along. That things are running *this* smoothly is worth many times more than the price of Leopard. For many things I need to do, I'm now breathing a genuine sigh of relief for the first time in ages. I am aware, though, that there will most likely be some bumps to deal with, but right out of the box all my current AUs seem to be working fine or at least as expected.