Hi there,
I just did a successful Upgrade today. For my backup, I used Deja Vu
and cloned the drive over the network. This probably took more time
than if I had plugged the drive in direct, but it produced an usable
clone just the same. Didn't need it, thankfully.
For my installation, I used my OS X installer that I cloned to an
external firewire hard drive. First I checked the MacBook drive using
Disk Utility, than I upgraded - Upgrade was the default choice, so I
figured what the heck. The entire installation process took about 40
minutes. The only tick I had was when I closed the Registration
Assistant window instead of quitting it altogether - when I decided to
quit it finally, it wouldn't quit and it was holding back the finder.
Restarting cured this, and the laptop's been running fine - through
numerous updating restarts and sleep cycles - ever since.
Now, the latest and greatest version of Dictate should be in the mail
tomorrow. YIPPEE!
Just out of curiosity, has anybody tried installing OS X from an USB
Flashdrive?
Thanks a lot for all your help.
Malzy
On May 22, 3:38 pm, Jane, Portland, OR janespra...@comcast.net
wrote:
On May 21, 4:18 am, dc dbc...@verizon.net wrote:
I made a complete bootable backup using Carbon Copy Cloner, then
selected the Upgrade option on the Leopard install disk. That way I
kept all my applications, extensions, preference panes, etc. intact in
the new system installation. After all the updates I ran monolingual
to remove languages and architectures, then ran TechTool Pro to
optimize files and volume structures. The process took about 2 hours,
it turns out I didn't need the CCC backup at all because everything
worked but there's no way I'm skipping that step- it's the best
insurance.
On May 20, 4:49 pm, dualG4Wheels horne...@metrocast.net wrote:
The MBP is running 10.4.11, and I maybe in a situation soon where I
will need to put 10.5 on the machine
dc I need some clarification on what you did. Was the Leopard
install disk in your computer or some other external drive when you
selected Upgrade? Did you use Upgrade to upgrade your backup or
your computer?
Where do you find monolingual to remove the languages and
architectures? That would save some hard drive space!
TechToolPro commercial version or supplied by Apple?
Jane
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