[G4] Installing Tiger with Panther

[John Baltutis]

On 10/22/06, Carol <java_j at macosx.com> wrote:
>
> I am ready to take the plunge and buy/install Tiger.
>
> I have Panther already running.  What I want to do is to be able to boot
> from Panther or Tiger.
>
> My plan is to install Tiger on separate partition or even a separate
> hard drive.  I assume that if I just use the 'Archive and Install'
> option, I would lose the ability to boot from Panther.
>
> What do you think would be the best way to do this?
>
> 1) Clone the Panther boot disk onto the Tiger partition.  Delete
> documents and other user data.  Then use 'Archive and Install' to
> install Tiger.  The idea being that it would keep my network setup. But
> then I would have two copies of my Panther application.
>
> 2) Just install Tiger from scratch on the Tiger partition.
>
> 3) Something else
>
> What do you do with your applications?  Many of them should run under
> Panther and Tiger.  If I have only one copy of, say, Adobe's InDesign,
> will Tiger find it if it is in Panther's Applications folder?
>
> My main reason for moving to Tiger is to use iMovie/iDVD from iLife 6.
> I could boot back into Panther for everything else.  Would that be the
> way to start?

Regardless of why you want to make the move, the simplest thing to do (assuming
you want to run both Panther and Tiger) is to make a bootable backup of Panther
onto the Tiger partition (using Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper!, etc.), boot
the machine with the Tiger disk, and use the "upgrade earlier version" option.
That will let Tiger look exactly like Panther (excepting the updated features).
All of your settings and passwords being consistent between the two. For the
applications that won't run under Tiger, you'll have to update them manually.

Once you get the two OSs running smoothly, get an external, bootable, FireWire
HD and clone your two partitions to it.