I am a total novice at this despite having been a Mac user for some years and I always choose the easiest route.
On 4 Nov 2003, at 07:01, Thomas Holm / Pixl wrote:
Hi Guys/Gals
I'm about to venture into Panther (OS X 10.3). It appears that you can
upgrade a previous installed OS X (10.2.8 in my case) rather than having to
reinstall the OS, not to mention the hundreds of odd applications I use.
Due to the problems with Firewire drives I have only updated my Titanium laptop so far. Initially I simply did the upgrade without any prior preparations apart from quitting all open applications! Everything worked fine apart from having my Mail program replaced totally, thus losing all my account settings, rules, signatures and of course all messages! It was only the backup from my main machine though so no worries.
I subsequently read on various newsgroups that its best to do a clean install so I bit the bullet and followed this route. My laptop drive has two partitions, one for 9.2 and the other larger part for X, so I simply backed up all my home folders and did a straightforward erase and install. This did of course leave all my 'Classic' apps untouched.
The machine does now seem to be running noticeably faster, even after loading on all my software and this thought is backed up by other comments that I have read. Therefore I've decided that, when the time is right, I will do a clean install on my G4 Dual although this is not something I look forward to.
Has any one yet used the LaCie drive updater and installed 10.3 successfully without damage to Firewire drives?
Best wishes,
Jason Smalley
www.jasonsmalley.com www. wildscape.co.uk
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