Re: Another Tiger Upgrade Question... :-)
- From: kyle_jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kyle Jones)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:03:36 -0500
Randall Ainsworth <rag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <paul.foerster@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > ... I finally decided to give Tiger a try and it went all
> > well so far (10.4.2 incl. latest online updates). Beside the
> > fact that I don't like the new mail interface's look and a
> > few pretty nasty bugs it has, everything's fine so far. But
> > there's one thing that I just can't figure out:
> >
> > Since the upgrade, beside my own single account the login window
> > displays an entry for "Other..." which, when selected, asks for
> > username and password. I liked the old trick with alt-enter to
> > get a username/password prompt instead of the usual thing way
> > better. Is there a way to remove that "Other..." entry from the
> > login window and revert to the old behavior?
>
> As always, when going from one version of an OS to another, you are
> best to start from scratch - yeah that means formatting the drive and
> starting from zero. Going over the top of an existing OS just inherits
> any problems it may already have.
Overkill. It's a good idea to uninstall anything that uses
kernel extensions or that uses undocumented hooks into the
system to give you cool fruit flavored menus or whatever.
Beyond that, just install any update that requires a reboot
one update at a time, rebooting in between, and your system
should be fine. If it isn't then you can still wipe the
disk and start over, but it makes no sense not to try to
upgrade the existing OS installation. Reinstalling all your
third-party apps and restoring your files from backup could
take a long time. Why waste all that time and do all that
work if you don't have to?
And since Randall Ainsworth is the same person who argued in
another thread that we shouldn't partition our disks, I'll point
out with some irony that had you partitioned your disk and
separated your files and third-paty apps from the OS files you
could do what he advises, (wipe the OS partition and do a clean
install) _without_ having to restore and reinstall everything
else.
.
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