[X4U] Diving into Leopard . . .

[John Baltutis]

On 10/27/08, Joe Sporleder <joe at wacondatrader.com> wrote:
>
> Any gotchas I need to worry about as I begin to worry about with 
> Leopard as I start upgrading our newspaper publishing office (other 
> than the obvious, make a good backup or two before I start)? I just 
> bought one of our salespeople a refurbished MacBook Pro from Apple to 
> replace an aging MacBook. I'm also replacing a desktop in the near 
> future with a Mac that also comes with Leopard. I'm going to start by 
> installing a license of Leopard I bought for my own older MacBook Pro 
> to get comfortable with it for a few days and then role it out to the
> two others that will have Leopard.

Sorry for the late response, but I'm on digest mode and the latest contains
stuff that's a week old.

If moving from PPC to ICBM (Intel-chip-based Mac), see
<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1872713 > for starters.

Get a bootable, external HD (preferably FireWire), and make a bootable
backup/clone before updating, upgrading, or installing new softtware and ensure
that it's bootable and works like the original. That allows you to revert to
the previous good state without having to reinstall anything if the update
causes issues.  See these for details:

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106941>
<http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html>
<http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html>
<http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/installswupdates.html>
<http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/backuprecovery.html>

Once that's done, see these for info on the three Leopard installation options:

<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5757385>
<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5666369>
<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5646414>