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test install onto External FW
Authored by: noivad on Aug 22, '02 07:11:00AM

I upgraded by testing the install on an external FireWire drive, and booting the Mac on that. all my Hardware worked fine under it. I also tested my critical apps -- which all worked fine, and upgraded WindowShadeX and DefaultFolder X. Everything looked good to go, so I then installed it on the Internal HD.

I was painless (If you don't count the install time). [It's ironic that for a OS that's code-named "Jaguar," the install is so slow.]

Anyway, if you have a Mac that can boot of an external FireWire drive, or have multiple bootable drives connected to your system this is probably the best way to really test if your system and you are ready for 10.2. If anything goes wrong, just reboot into your primary drive and wait until any drivers or software that is incompatible and critical is updated.

Thanks,
M

PS: backing up most of your prefs is as easy as copying your home directory. There are very few plists in the root library, but you can copy that too, just in case.



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