[Ti] Re: best upgrade options?

[John McGibney]

On Sep 30, 2006, at 5:56 PM, Barbara Needham wrote:

> heindebruijne on 9/30/06 said
>
>> Dear Lisbeth,
>>
>> Happy with my very same TiBook 400 mHz for, is it 5 years?, with
>> 10.3.9 and 1 Gig memory.
>> Now I got 10.4.8 coming with a new iMac 20"; I tried to upgrade from
>> 10.3.9 to 10.4.8 but
>> it did not work: how did you do it???
>> Tell me, is the classic 9.2.2 partition interfering?
>> I do like to upgrade, you know!
>
> Best way is to copy your whole computer to external hard drive, do  
> clean
> install, and then copy back what you want. Connecting the external  
> hard
> drive to the new install [I forget if it is supposed to be by  
> firewire or
> usb] the new installation is supposed to ask what you want out of  
> the old
> one. Never did it, just heard it described.
>
> Second best way is to archive and install but you need hard disk  
> space to
> do this.
> -- 
> Barbara Needham

Did you try to use the installer from the iMac? or a universal Tiger  
install DVD?
The iMac DVD will only install to the iMac.

John