[Mitchji]

Hi,

If you think a back up is not a good idea check this thread above:

[Mitchji]

Hi Keith,

You shoud follow the backup advice. Every once in while there is a thread by someone with a perfectly working system who had it go south with an upgrade and sometimes they spend days getting it back. All you need is a spare partition a little bigger than your boot partition. A few dollars of hard drive space and an hour of copying and testing is cheap insurance. You can use the Restore tab in Disk Utility (free), CCC or SuperDuper to clone the partition.

I would wait until you KNOW that all the applications you need work under Tiger and wait for the major bugs to be uncovered. Do you really want to be an unpaid beta tester for Apple? By the time everything you use is known to work Tiger will probably be at 10.4.2 or 10.4.3 and it will be safe to jump in.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[Prashant Bhargava] “I had the previous system archived on the main drive upon install of Panther. Should I restore that? Or is there some extension that I can copy over? “

Hi,

I would try booting off the archived partition. If the archive is not on a dedicated partition I would put it on a dedicated partition so that you can boot off it without wiping out the new Panther partition.

Next time clone the orginal partition to a dedicated partition and spend a few minutes testing on the clone before doing your upgrade.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Thanks!

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[Mark Simpson] “So my next step is to back it all up somewhere, and reformat the drive and then install panther there.”

Hi,

I would get everything working on the FW partition and clone it back using CCC, SuperDuper or the restore tab in Disk Utility.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

You want to use RAID Mirroring. This will maintain the exactly the same thing on two matching drives. Not slower but you only have one half the storage. I think the drives need to be the same size. You can do this with Disk Utility or third party software. You will need to back everything on the drives before setting up the Raid Array.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[MrVideo] “I don’t know if Apple even recommends this but experience tells us to backup all the important stuff with Carbon Copy Cloner to another bare/empty drive or Firewire drive and then format and initialize the boot drive , then install Panther. A fresh install should do good. Using CCC, restore the Applications, Documents, Users and mail and bookmarks back to the newer applications such as Safari and Mail”

Hi,

Of course you should back up your boot partition first, it just doesn’t make sense to burn your bridges behind you when a 30 minute backup and $40 or $50 worth of hard drive space can provide a complete copy to fall back on if necessary. This si seems like basic common sense. The restore tab in Disk Utility, CCC or SuperDuper are all good choices.

Then run the Disk Utility Repair or Disk Warrior (probably best) or Tech Tool from your copied boot partition (easier than the CD) on the partition you plan to update.

Then repair permissions.

The archive and install option should work (check save settings etc). A full fresh install is probably a little more reliable but not normally necessary.

Then repair permissions again.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[David Robinson] “Are these Macs used in a business? Believe it or not, a disclaimer at the bottom of the family pack page reads like this – “This license does not extend to students who reside at a separate on-campus location or to business or commercial users.” I was going to get the family pack also, but now I’m not sure.”

Hi,

If you buy three copies (I assume you can get multiple rebates) of Tiger at Amazon the total cost will be $285 free shipping and no sales tax. That is an extra $35 over the family pack after the $50 rebate which is not a big deal.

LA Computer Company offers dealmac readers Apple’s Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for $91 plus $8.06 shipping. Excluding rebates, that’s the lowest total price we’ve seen by $4. (Amazon.com still offers it for $94.99 shipped after a $35 mail-in rebate.) Offer ends April 28.
https://dealmac.com/articles/Mac+OS+X+10.4+Tiger+for+91/84798.html

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

The SeriTek SATA 4 port card and two dual drive enclosures are probably a better choice. There should be a review soon here:
https://www.barefeats.com/index.html
COMING REAL SOON NOW:
RE-REVIEW: FirmTek SeriTek/1VE4 SATA PCI-X host adapter and 1EN2 hot-swap enclosures

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

I assume its the same as the Production Suite Upgrade from FCP. The only thing required was the previous serial number.

BTW this company offers a small discount and no sales tax:
https://www.sharbor.com/vendors/APL.html

Best Wishes,

Mitch