[X4U] Last Check Before Upgrading To Tiger

[John Baltutis]

On 07/08/05, revDAVE <coolcat at hostalive.com> wrote:
>
> Before I upgrade to tiger from panther 10.3.9...  I'm wondering which is the
> best way to go about this...
>
> Already, I have made a carbon copy clone of my drive,  and I will repair
> disk permissions and disk warrior one last time before I upgrade... Since I
> already have a good backup, is it OK to simply use the upgrade command, or
> is it better to do archive and install... ( unless absolutely necessary I
> would rather not do a clean install since that takes so long)...?

The recommended upgrade path is to do the update an earlier version. This
is the least complicated and the one I used routinely while beta-testing
Tiger for over seven months. The benefits over archive & install is that
"everything" from the previous version is integrated and there's no
Previous System folder that contains a lot of stuff that has to be moved
from the old to the new manually. Since you have a clone and have a good
working system, it's the least painfull way to upgrade.

>
> -  should I first uninstall any particular applications such as Norton
> System Works 3 - quickeys 2.1 Etc.?

NSW and Norton Utilities don't work with Tiger and Symantec has no plans to
update them. Dump them (using the uninstaller) before updating. I don't
know about QuickKeys.
>
> Also -  are there any known bugs or tricks that I should be aware of to
> accomplish this upgrade?

Check MacInTouch and MacFixIt.

> If I create a working (G4) Tiger system on an external FireWire enclosure,
> can I then move that drive to an older G4 Computer and then carbon copy
> clone that system from the external FireWire to the internal hard drive
> successfully? In other words, is OSX tiger - a universal operating system -
> independent of any particular hardware?

If the FWHD will boot the older G4 and run it without problems, then its
clone should also. Do that and check it out first.