I recommend reading the Migrating to Jaguar article on page 65 of the Oct MacWorld before installing OS 10.2.
The installer has three choices: Clean Install, Upgrade, and Archive & Install. If you already have an older version of OSX, the default will be Upgrade. There is no explanation of what Archive & Install does, what you should do afterward, and what it is good for. So I used the default Upgrade (going from OS 10.1.5), and have experienced a few crashes in the few weeks since then. These are real Unix crashes, where I have use the Off switch to turn it off and reboot. I reboot using Cmd-S to run fsck -y to see what damage was done. If applications have been open, there is always damage to repair. The MacWorld article explains how to use Archive & Install. It's a Clean Install with quite a bit of work on your part afterward, to transfer your old stuff from the Archived System to the new System, but it supposedly prevents crashes such as I have had. Allan Atherton The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
