Best way to install OS 10.2

[Harrie Westphal]

I just received OS X 10.2 in the mail yesterday and am wondering what is 
the best way to install it as the documentation that came with it and 
the Read Before Installing PDF file give very little help. I can either 
install it over 10.1.5 keeping my added software in place or install it 
on an erased second internal drive and then hope I have all the 
installers and registration codes available to add the other software on 
to that drive.

I am wondering what others have done and how it turned out. I have been 
using Macs since  the SE30 days and this will be the first time that I 
have ever replaced the operating system on one of my Macs.

One other thing, is the BSD system automatically installed or do you 
have to do it separately? I noticed a BSD package file on the install CD 
and am wondering. I am a little disappointed in the total lack of 
discussion about this in the manual that comes with the disks.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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A Mac addict in Tennessee
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