[G4] Updating Guidance (was: User Report on the new Security Update 2006-004)

[John Baltutis]

On 08/03/06, Richard Ramsowr <r.ramsowr at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> John
>
> I found my clock after a second restart. But you are
> the first to put reason to the fact that I've got a
> real speed bump out of this security update and thats
> a good thing Thanks.
>
> I'm currently running a Power PC G4 733 MHz
> QuickSilver with 1.5 GB of Ram using OS x (10.3.9).
>
> I've also got software in the mail to upgrade to Tiger
> - so hopefully this weekend I'll start the prep work
> to make the move. Any ideas to make that change over
> run better are always welcome.
>
> But the botom line is this old girl is running faster
> and acting a whole lot younger!

These should get you started:
<http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/install/>,
<http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html>, and
<http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/installswupdates.html>.

Bottom line. Make a bootable backup, run Disk Utility and Apple Hardware Test
(Tiger is finicky about RAM specs), disconnect peripherals except keyboard and
mouse, install Tiger using the update previous version option, run Software
Update, apply the updates, run it again until there are no more,  after
restart, run Disk Utility and repair permissions, and update any 3rd-party
applications.