[X4U] Upgrading to 10.4

[John Baltutis]

On 04/06/07,  "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> I'm getting ready to finally re-upgrade to 10.4.  I first did the
> upgrade the day it was released, but went back to 10.3.9 a month or
> so later when the brand new hard drive I used died.  My main reason
> for staying on 10.3.9 is gone, due to an OpenVMS upgrade I no longer
> have any classic Appletalk shares.
>
> Anyway, I am wondering what the recommended upgrade path is.  I seem
> to recall something about selecting something like move aside the
> existing install.  Does this require that I reinstall all of my applications?

Make a bootable backup of your 10.3.9 system, pop in the Tiger install disk,
and select the Upgrade previous version option. Than's the cleanest and won't
muck with any of your settings or apps. Also, there's no Previous System folder
creation as there is with the Archive & Install option.