On Feb 13, 2004, at 2:53 PM, G Harris wrote:
I just purchased a G3 14" iBook with OS 10.2, and a CD for upgrading to 10.3.
Are there precautions I should take prior to upgrading, any unexpected surprises? I've had the machine for less than a week so there's nothing irreplaceable.
I read that there were some nasty surprises for people who had firewire drives, but I don't have any peripherals (yet).
If you're not wedded to the user profile you've set up on the iBook (and all the installed apps!) , then reformat the drive and install 10.3.
Otherwise we've had the best luck with and 'Archive and re-install' with the preserve user settings stuff. Only two minor problems in some 25 or so systems we've upgraded that way, and those problems were quite fixable; one file placed by a third party wasn't moved to the new system.
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