Experiences With Leopard: Upgrade
So as you probably will have guessed by the title; Leopard has arrived and has been installed. I thought in this blog post I would talk about my upgrade experiences. I had always planned to do just a simple upgrade as my machine was still pretty new, I am glad I did as any of the other choices most likely would have been wasted as everything seems so far to have come out of the upgrade perfectly!
Back-up, Back-up, Back-up! -
This is what I was doing for just over an hour after getting Leopard and the Hard Drive. I used SuperDuper to make a drive back-up just in case anything went wrong - luckily nothing did. Unfortunately after getting about half way I had to stop and move somewhere else. After that was done I was ready to go onto the install.
Welcome to Mac OS X Leopard -
So I inserted the disk and restarted, after hearing that Leopard can get confused if you have an external hard drive attached I promptly detached it when the machine booted. Like you do, I went through all the choices and the agreements till I came to the choose hard drive to install… This is where I hit a little problem - it would not detect my drive, it sat there for ages doing nothing. The solution? I restarted the install and (as Steve Jobs would say) boom! It was showing my 120GB internal hard drive.
Hello! -
It only took about forty minutes for the Leopard install and once it was I was ready to play around with the new OS and have been, check out the blog for some more updates in my “Experiences with Leopard” series!
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I upgraded two machines, a Core 2 Duo MacBook and a 2ghz G5 iMac. The upgrade on the G5 went very smooth, no issues. Leopard seems very snappy on this machine. The MacBook upgrade did not go so well. I tried the upgrade (x2) and got the BSOD. I did the APE removal from command line and it booted fine, but I lost mouse control. Finally I just wiped the whole thing clean and did a fresh install. Works great now.
November 1st, 2007 at 1:58 pmSounds like it’s going to be easy for me to upgrade my MacPro - but should I wait a little for any problems to be sorted?
November 1st, 2007 at 2:17 pmIt doesn’t seem that there have been to many problems, most of them were with a system enhancer; which you don’t have - contrary to my original advice, Leopard is definitely a safe buy at the moment.
November 1st, 2007 at 4:15 pmI didn’t know you didn’t see the drive and i kept walking in
November 1st, 2007 at 9:13 pmMy upgrade went well after some palaver with the backup when SuperDuper wanted to wipe my whole external drive. As soon as I booted into Leopard though (after the install) it did an update off the internet. I haven’t had time to check it yet.
November 7th, 2007 at 10:17 pmLatest update - all my software seems fine and everything is great. Only problem seems to be the Spaces is slow to switch screens when iMovie is open.
November 9th, 2007 at 6:40 pm