On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 04:03 AM, Glenn Schunemann wrote:
All,
Been seeing a lot of mail about 10.3; some good, some bad. If you have 10.x and are planning to upgrade to 10.3 I recommend following these steps:
1) Before updating, boot the 10.2 CD (Install/Upgrade Disk #1) and run disk permission repair (not verify).
Permissions repair can be run on the booted drive, no need to boot from the CD for this.
2) Run Disk Utility First Aid (repair disk, not verify).
Actually done as part of the install process; you can do this booted form the 10.3 disk. However it can't hurt.
3) When installing 10.3 perform an "archive and install" and preserve user and network settings.
Hear hear! No major problems doing this on 7 systems so far and counting. The big culprit seems to be the upgrade installer, and I recall that people had similar problems with 10.1 and 10.2
The minor problems were one third party program needed to have a single file moved from the archive system folder to the new one, and two systems needed some finagling to get their oddball, unsupported printer working again.
Both fixed in about 5 minutes of command-line work in Terminal, fortunately.
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