Posts: 231 Joined: 12/27/05 Location: Upstate California
I upgraded my wife's iMac 17" Intel today and my other Mac Mini.
Everything went without a hitch.
A couple of safety precautions.
1. Insert the Leopard install disk and choose the installer and then restart
2. Accept the English language (or other language of your choice)
3. Do not go any further on the installation at this time
4. Click on "Utilities" on the main menu bar and down to "Disk Utility"
5. Once Disk Utility opens up, choose your disk on the left side and then click "Repair Disk" button on the right side
6. Once the disk is repaired, then click on "Repair Permissions"
After you have done the above, then you can continue on with the regular installation.
I have found that it is better Repairing the Disk and Repairing Permission using the Leopard install disk rather than doing this from your hard drive using 10.4 Tiger.
The Leopard install disk prepares the disk for Leopard....
One last thing. For you people with All-In-One printers especially, check Apple's page to make sure your All-In-One printer is compatible with Leopard. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.ht...num=306684
I'm sure you will enjoy the new features in Leopard.
Let me know if any of you install Leopard and report your success or problems here.
Edited by Joe Kriz on 11/05/07 - 05:04 PM
Joe Kriz
Posts: 231 Joined: 12/27/05 Location: Upstate California
A few more suggestions before installing Leopard and following the directions above.
Unplug anything you have in the back of the Mac... You should not have anything plugged into your Mac except the keyboard and mouse unless of course you are wireless.
No USB hubs, No printers, No card readers, No external HD, nothing....
It's also a good idea to have your important information backed up on CD's or DVD's or an external HD...
If you don't have your important information like photos, documents, etc., then you are already looking for trouble....
I have always said, it isn't a matter of if your HD is going to crash someday, it's just a matter of when....
Always... Always... have your important items backed up somehow....
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