[DM-MUG] Snow Leopard

[CW Smith]

My best advice: BACK UP FIRST !!!

Start with an external FireWire hard drive and format it for GUID  
partition table. This drive should be as large or (preferably) larger  
than the drive in your Mac.

Download the trial version of SuperDuper at http://www.shirt- 
pocket.com (if you really like it you can purchse it later). Use  
SuperDuper to make a bootable clone of your hard drive to the external  
drive we talked about earlier.

At this point it would be wise to boot to the backup drive and make  
sure everything is kosher before proceeding to the SL (Snow Leopard)  
install.

Now you can boot to the Snow Leopard disk and either (a) upgrade- 
install SL (the default option) or (b) erase-install SL, then use the  
Migration Assistant to migrate your Applications and user folder(s)  
from the backup you made in step 2.

Once you're certain everything is working properly on the new system,  
you can use the external hard drive as your new Time Machine backup  
drive.

Don't hesitate to call or email Jon or myself, or email back to the  
list, if you're at all uncertain about the process. Better to take a  
step back and be really sure, than to misstep and wind up losing data.

Peace,
CW

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CW Smith
Windows & Macintosh repair
Apple Certified Mac Technician

(515) 577-1716
cwsmith7 at gmail.com

"Guitar, bass, percussion, Mac"
www.cwsmith.fm
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On Dec 1, 2009, at 6:14 PM, mauri booton <woohoowoohoo at me.com> wrote:

> I just received my Snow Leopard upgrade discs. Any tips or hints about
> doing the upgrade installation?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> ~~ mauri ~~
>
> The presentation at the last meeting spurred me on to do this.
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