On Feb 17, 2006, at 11:59 PM, Concetta Z wrote:
(I'm waiting to hear more about 10.4.3/10.4.4/10.4.5 for my iBook,
and when I have an extra $100 I'll upgrade the eMac to Tiger)
Thanks for any input.
Concetta
I've upgraded my B&W (G4/450) and iBook (G3/500) from 4.3 to 4.4 to
4.5 and have had no problems at all.
Hey, all, thanks
I received a couple of posts encouraging me to go ahead and upgrade
from 10.4.2 to 10.4.5.
So I'm going to take the plunge... Thanks for giving me courage...
Concetta
I have only gotten into trouble *once* updating one of the Macs at
the school (of about 35-40), and that once was easily fixed (an A&R
of 10.2 followed by re-applying the update, whole process took about
35 minutes). I could have fixed even quicker had there been another
account to log onto on the machine.
The only upgrade that has ever been a serious problem was 10.3 and
the "Great Firewire Drive Massacre". Now, if you go to Macintouch or
Macfixit along about update time, you would believe that every
software update Apple has ever issued has been fraught with horrible,
data-eating, computer-killing monster bugs.
Some people have their ritual "Boot from the CD, run Disk Repair,
reboot, run Permissions repair, reboot in Safe mode, run the update
whilst shaking a rattle and chicken feathers over the keyboard" to
ensure a successful update.
Me, I fire up Software Update, then put it in the back and keep on
working usually on fifteen things at once. I have, to my knowledge,
never run Permissions Repair on my systems, Disk Repair (on my boot
drive) only once (and the problem was something else entirely) and
the only time I've ever had a problem was when I tried to install
Tiger via a DVD drive in what turned out to be a flaky external
firewire enclosure.
Took me a day to recover from that one, because I ended up manually
restoring my home folder, amid a number of permissions issues.
However, I ALWAYS do an upgrade (10.3.x to 10.4.x) via Archive and Re-
install, most people I've ever seen who had problems have gone the
Upgrade route.
As I said, updates (10.4.4 to 10.4.5) I usually run while I'm doing
other things. Of all my systems only one isn't a complete frankenmac:
my Pismo laptop, and IT has a slot loading DVD/CDRW transplanted from
a defunct TiBook.
I attribute my good luck to three things:
1) Clean Living...I rarely put tequila on my Cheerios anymore.
2) Plenty of Exercise...they won't let me put the coffeepot in the
office, so I have to walk ALL the way down the hall.
3) I have Backups of my Stuff. Irreplaceable files, such as iPhoto
Libraries, and iTunes purchases are backed up on multiple CD or DVD
disks, stored in different locations, and I have an external FW drive
that I back up my home directories to on a regular basis. There's
also a bootable system installed on that drive, so in an emergency I
can start up my systems from it as well.
4) All my Desktop systems are on uninterruptible power supplies, all
from APC <http://www.apc.com/>. They deliver clean, regulated power
to the computer, which helps ensure the best performance and longest
life for the electronic components. I don't get the oddball component
failures and suchlike that are common on these lists.
Since laptops are powered through adapters, and have batteries, this
is less important for them, because much of the regulating is done
automatically.
There are other brands than APC, but we use them exclusively at work
(counting the systems under people's desks we've probably got a
couple of hundred of 'em) and are very pleased.
Of my rules, I suspect #3 is the most important, followed by #4.
--
Bruce Johnson
"No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai
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