On the first Mac I decided to upgrade the installation didn't stall. I got a Can not install on this Hard drive error.
An it then asked to reformat. Well I said "ah no". But the damage was already done. The Installer had already corrupted the Boot volume of the hard drive. This left me with a flashing folder with a ? Well a couple of hours trying to get DiskWarrior and tech tool pro to recover from the error. Lead me to dig out the original Disc's for the Mac in question. I then had to go back to a fresh install of Tiger and then do an install of Leopard. So it ended up being a real fun Sunday. I have several more hours of getting this Mac back into shape again. So the 3 other Mac's in the house are going to wait for this update as I purchase more hard drives for each to do a bootable back up on each one before I attempt to upgrade them. Oh your mileage may vary.:) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:macgroup-bounces at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of J. Blake Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:38 AM To: Macintosh topics Subject: Re: [MacGroup] Leopard Friends, I have belonged to a writers group for years. Before installing Leopard, I read their comments. One member passed along a thread on the Apple discussions site. It not only agrees with the advice from fatalerror that archive and install is the right way to go, but it contains other important information. In any event, thought I'd pass it on FYI. The first part is pretty much the same, but read to the bottom of the thread for the good stuff. (Looks like Apple may have a huge problem about installing Leopard it needs to solve. Think I'll wait for a while :-) http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1195031&tstart=0 Jane Jerry Freeman wrote: ps. the behavior of the Help window, always locked in the front position, will be awkward on smaller displays. make the Help window as small as possible, position tight to an edge, or minimize. lots of extra clicking. best...jf On Oct 28, 2007, at 2:57 AM, Jerry Freeman wrote: On Oct 27, 2007, at 11:08 PM, Fatal Error wrote: <snip> 8. With the Dock at the bottom, you can view folders as a fan or a grid. With the Dock on either side, you only get the grid. <insert string of loud expletives> dock has digressed. eliminated in leopard dock is the ability to drill down nested folders (as in tiger dock). an irritating trade off of functionality for mediocre fan/grid "dock toys". prior to tiger, folderglance (donationware) was the viable solution to add on click navigable file menu. hopefully folderglance will be updated for leopard, or apple could just fix dock the [EMAIL PROTECTED]& dock. what a %$&#$ time consumptive drag. 9. Web clippings in Safari that become Widgets. Just try. to develop your own widgets >pop in the leopard install disk > open xcode tools folder > open and install dashcode.pkg best...jf _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be October 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20071029/6124acc7/attachment-0001.html
