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For your (completed/planned) Tiger upgrade, which method (did/will) you use?
1/1: For your (completed/planned) Tiger upgrade, which method (did/will) you use?
Other polls | 1,130 votes | 7 comments
Upgrade options
I've actually tried all three methods in various settings, and I find, as usual, that reformatting and installing everything fresh is the best way to go. Yes, it's long ang cumbersome, and I have no idea where every single installation CD is, but it's the best way to make sure you are only installing the stuff you want. We've all downloaded and installed God only knows how many shareware/freeware products, and be honest, you only use a few of them. I've also tinkered under the hood quite a bit, and not all of those hacks will work in Tiger the same way they did in Panther, so it is always a good idea to start fresh with any major system upgrade.
New Upgrade Option Variation w/ Tiger
A nice new variation that I tried with Tiger (and which can sort of be done with 10.3, but works best with the 10.4) is to backup, erase, and install.
another upgrade option
Due to my aging iBook and my prospective financial timeline, my Tiger upgrade option will likely be "Buy a new laptop" :-)
I did 'em all
I can't really vote as I did three different type of installations on different systems.
Archive and install for me...
....used that method on my Dual 2GHz G5. Had no major hiccups, save for copying over Macromedia's preference files over. Everything else worked out of the box. I did a clean install on my PowerBook G3; pleased to report that went smoothly.
Erase vs. Upgrade?
Elsewhere I have seen people suggest that an Erase & Install of Tiger will result in noticeably faster performance than an Upgrade from 10.3.x. Can anyone comment based on first-hand experience? TIA.
My approach
My boot drive is divided into three volumes. I backed up the boot (first) volume, containing OS 10.3.9, onto the second volume, then did an Erase and Install onto the first volume, and when the Setup Assistant launched, it asked me if I wanted to use the Migration Assistant to import settings, applications, etc. from another volume. I said yes, and let it carry over my settings, etc. from the second volume. I figured this was cleaner than an Archive and Install, since I've seen trouble with A&I installations that were due to the installer leaving behind some files (probably invisible ones) that it figured it could re-use in the newly installed system. Of course, the cleanest approach would have been not to use the Migration Assistant, but instead to reinstall all my apps, and manually re-enter all my settings, but I wanted to see what would happen with the Migration Assistant, since I'd never used it before. After doing this, I began to see some odd behavior, crashes, etc., so I installed another drive, and did a completely clean Erase and Install of OS 10.4 onto it, so I have a known-good installation to compare to the behavior of my Migration Assistant'ed volume. Since then, enough of the odd problems with my main boot volume have quieted down enough, on their own, so I haven't had to do any comparing yet, but it's a matter of time. |
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