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Paranoid upgrade to Leopard -- advice/verification please
Paranoid user with Power Mac G4/933 about to upgrade to Leopard.
Four HDs, 2 int and 2 ext. int HD 1 - 120 GB
int HD 2 - 250 GB
ext HD 1 - 500 GB
ext HD 2 - 500 GB
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"Usage Tip" on p38 of the manual talks about keeping new application images and installers in a folder on the desktop in the Sandbox. Since it's shared with the original volume, you can restart under the original volume, and then apply those installers to the original volume. You seem to say, then, that one should try an upgrade install of Leopard on the original volume (after backing it up!). Correct? If that doesn't work, one can wipe and reinstall Leopard clean, and using migration assistant to transfer files from the backup. You seem to say that Sandbox won't work between different system versions: therefore, if I upgrade my base Macintosh HD partition above to Leopard, my three Sandbox Tiger partitions will stop working, correct? Now the first BIG questions: when I use SuperDuper! to create Leopard Sandboxes, can I simply Smart Update, or will it be necessary to Erase the existing Sandbox partitions? I think I would only lose installed apps on a Sandbox, if I used the "Erase" option in SuperDuper! Sandbox, so the impact wouldn't be too bad. Or is there something else that would get lost? Finally the second BIG question: suppose I erase the two 30 GB partitions containing Sandbox 0 and Sandbox 1. Suppose I clean install Leopard on Sandbox 0, and then use migration assistant, taking care to create aliases to the ext HD 1 with Documents folders so the 30 GB doesn't fill up. Suppose I then create a Leopard Sandbox on the Sandbox 1 partition. Now I would have partitions with Tiger, Tiger Sandbox, and also Leopard, Leopard Sandbox. Would this work? Is it advisable? Or is there a better plan? Maybe you could mention the steps you at Shirt Pocket are taking? All of the above presumes the use of the updated version of SuperDuper! after Leopard arrives. I'm presuming you don't suggest trying the existing version for either Smart Updates or Sandboxes? __________________ --Suman |
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