Re: chances of a one-hop upgrade from 10.3.9 to 10.5?
- From: J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:47:09 -0400
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:25:16 -0400, Randall Ainsworth wrote
(in article <300720071825169672%rag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
In article <f8lr3g$khd$5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Rick Jones
<rick.jones2@xxxxxx> wrote:
What are the chances (qualitative guesstimation is fine) of being able
to do a one-shot upgrade of an 800 MHz G4 snow (?) Luxor Jr from
10.3.9 to 10.5.mumble when 10.5 releases?
Whether Windows or Mac, when making major changes in OS versions,
you're always better off to start fresh.
Errm...
I've been a Mac user since 1984. I've pretty much _always done upgrade
installs, certainly since I first got a hard drive attached to my Mac Plus.
The OS 9 System Folder currently installed on my iMac G5 is a direct
descendant of the System Folder on that Plus, updated system by system, OS by
OS, all the way from 1986. The last machine I had which had SCSI built in (a
beige G3) booted from OS 9 on an external drive (an UltraSCSI drive, attached
to an Adaptec 2940 card) with that System Folder. I also had a FireWire card
in that beige G3, and copied the contents of my boot drive (including the
System Folder) to a drive on that card, then transfered that drive to a
(then) nice shiney new eMac and booted from the drive, and installed OS X on
that drive. For a rather considerable time I used external hard drives to
boot various Macs, updating OS X as necessary. I've gone from OS X 10.1 o
10.4, no more problems than going from System 1 to OS 9.
WRT Windows, there are certain cases where it's advisable to start fresh, and
certain cases where it's _impossible_, by Microsoft fiat, to do anything
other than start fresh, but even there updating the OS doesn't _necessarily_
cause problems unless there were problems with the system in the first place.
I currently have Vista Business installed as an _upgrade_ from XP Pro on my
main WinBox, and it works with no more problems than to be expected from a
WinBox running Vista. (No, I didn't pay full price. I paid US$20, the
education system price. If they'd wanted more than that, I'd not have bought
the silly thing. As it was I almost didn't buy it, 'cause the education
system price for XP Pro had been US$7.50 and IMHO Vista wasn't worth the
price premium.)
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