On 28 Jul 2005, at 3:10 am, Julianus wrote:
Claire Hart wrote:
Can he just insert the disc and follow the prompts to upgrade? (Of
course, it would be best if he could back up first, but...) If
Julianus bought the 9.1 upgrade, he has to work from an existing OS 9,
not from a wiped HD. Is that right?
Unless I wipe it myself, which is how I upgraded from 7.5 to 8.6 on my
previous Mac. That is also the ONLY OS upgrade I have ever done, hence
my uncertainty.
First, you don't need to wipe the hard disk in order to upgrade. It is
a very good idea to back up your files first, though (more on that in a
minute).
Secondly, I want to know a bit more about this disc you bought. Is it a
full copy of 9.1 or just an updater? [I wasn't aware that the 9.1
update was available on CD; I remember slowly and painfully downloading
it in instalments. However, it may well have been available for a few
dollars shipping charge.] In the first case, you'd boot from the CD and
run the installer; in the second, you'd probably just double-click the
installer and follow the instructions. But in either case there should
be a text file and/or a pdf file on the disc with full instructions.
When you insert the disc, what files do you see?
Finally, if I read your original message right, you have several years'
worth of work that isn't backed up. This is frankly alarming. It's
highly unlikely that upgrading the OS will affect your own documents,
but you'd be far better off making sure. If you can afford a Firewire
hard drive, that would not only take the fraughtness out of the
upgrade, but give you peace of mind in the future (there are other
options, of course, depending on how much data you need to back up).
That iMac DV must be about five years old; they don't live forever.
Miche.
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