[DM-MUG] Upgrading from 10.4 Tiger to 10.5 Leopard best practices

[Ray Bowler]

Victoriia,

If she has a couple of good bootable backups with SD I would so an  
erase and install and then when you restart it will offer to migrate  
from the clone and there should be few f any problems. Thi way you  
have a clean disk to start with.

A lot of people though use archive and install and are happy with it.

Isn't there a Take Control book for this?


On Jan 26, 2009, at Jan 26, 20096:09 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

> My sister has a MBPro and is thinking of upgrading to Leopard.  She  
> is really not into techie things [smart enough but maybe not patient  
> enough] but thinks she can do it herself.  I told her I would send  
> her a sort of 'best practices' summary and want to confirm my  
> understanding is correct:  (1) backup [I downloaded SuperDuper so  
> she can do that - the harddrive she has is a 1T so I might have her  
> partition it and do a double clone just in case...(2) repair  
> permissions...(3) restart...(4) archive and install [i.e., which  
> option would be best?] then to bring it up to date = repair  
> permissions again, run Software update [or get Combo download?]..
>
> anything I'm forgetting...?  She could take it to a Genius Bar but  
> if handled right I think she can do it herself and that might also  
> help her to understand how easy, really, it is...
>
> I think she has Entourage on her MBP but assume the OS upgrade won't  
> affect things - or should I get a System Profile Report and review  
> the apps etc. she has???  Thanks so much.
> -- 
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Ray Bowler

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