Re: Upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard?

2010-04-25 Thread Al Poulin
On Apr 24, 9:30 pm, cad c...@gamewood.net wrote: Would there be anything wrong with a single Hard Drive, partitioned   between TM, and Bootable backup     [maybe even a 'few' bootable partitions' for several choices.] That is a very good start with good habits. But an advantage of

Re: Upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard?

2010-04-24 Thread Al Poulin
On Apr 23, 1:15 pm, John Niven sense...@yahoo.com wrote: Wow! I just looked at iFixit.com and it looks as complicated as a PowerBook to replace the harddrive!. I think I'm just going to leave it alone (at least until it fails). I can tackle this level of complexity but it looks like ther is

Re: Upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard?

2010-04-23 Thread John Niven
think this leans me towards a backup onto external hard drive, clean install, and then copy over what she needs now. Bring back the (affordable) tower please! --- On Fri, 4/23/10, Ashgrove salum...@gmail.com wrote: From: Ashgrove salum...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Upgrading from Tiger to Snow

Re: Upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard?

2010-04-23 Thread Ashgrove
On Apr 23, 1:15 pm, John Niven sense...@yahoo.com wrote: Bring back the (affordable) tower please! Amen to that. F -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml

Re: Upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard?

2010-04-21 Thread Al Poulin
On Apr 20, 5:25 pm, John Niven sense...@yahoo.com wrote: My wife has a 2006 17 Intel iMac, which came with, and still has, Tiger (with all the updates). Recently she came across a program that required at least Leopard. So I'm thinking of upgrading her. Can I go from Tiger to Snow Leopard

Upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard?

2010-04-20 Thread John Niven
My wife has a 2006 17 Intel iMac, which came with, and still has, Tiger (with all the updates). Recently she came across a program that required at least Leopard. So I'm thinking of upgrading her. Can I go from Tiger to Snow Leopard directly? Do I just need the retail upgrade box? Anything to

Re: Upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard?

2010-04-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 20, 2010, at 2:25 PM, John Niven wrote: My wife has a 2006 17 Intel iMac, which came with, and still has, Tiger (with all the updates). Recently she came across a program that required at least Leopard. So I'm thinking of upgrading her. Can I go from Tiger to Snow Leopard directly?