Comments on: Leopard Migration: How It Went Down

By: Blair Beckwith

Blair Beckwith — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:36:48 +0000

I’ve decided to jump the gun and install Leopard. it’s actually installing on my ‘Book now…

By: Chris Thomson

Chris Thomson — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:55:54 +0000

I decided to do an Erase and Install aswell. Mine went fast! About 7 minutes for the disk check, and about 40 minutes for the actual install. I was satisfied with this timing. I still have a bootable backup of Tiger (also on a LaCie Porsche). I’m really liking Leopard (aside from the Twitterrific bugs ;-) )

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:50:02 +0000

Finished installing and moving my stuff over a few hours ago. Thus far I am VERY impressed. The small little features they added are simply amazing and work extremely well. I’m especially impressed with Mail, iCal and Time Machine.

By: Glenn Wolsey

Glenn Wolsey — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:39:39 +0000

[quote comment="40797"]What is the new OS like?[/quote]

Excellent! Watch this space for posts on Leopard, one went up last night on Spaces.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:15:27 +0000

My copy is on the delivery truck now. Can’t wait!

As per my installation method – I’m going too erase and install. It’s been a while since I’ve done any sort of cleaning to my Mac and I think it’s time.

By: Grant

Grant — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:48:39 +0000

Good article,

Typo – look a few hours… instead of took a few hours…
In the lastd paragraph

Can’t wait to get leopard myself!

By: Denis

Denis — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:33:11 +0000

I’ve upgrade Tiger to Leopard and I didn’t have any problem with installing.

No problem with storage. Just about hour and a half and I saw Leopard GUI.

By: Technogogo

Technogogo — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:38:08 +0000

Same here… upgraded our 3 systems – each without a hitch. Though saying that, on the iMac something a little odd: the external drive appeared as an “install on this” option, but there was a significant pause before the internal drive appeared. Had me slightly worried for a moment.

I was trying iChat theatre options with a friend last night. All worked very well.

By: Chris Vick

Chris Vick — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:01:00 +0000

I think I’m the only one who did an upgrade. It went perfectly on both my machines and my friends, too.

(PS- I think the phrase is “from the get go” but it may be different in NZ…)

By: Aaron Waters

Aaron Waters — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:33:08 +0000

Glad it went well Glenn. How about a piccy of your new desktop :) ?

Cheers

By: Loren Morris

Loren Morris — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:23:53 +0000

I was planning on doing the “erase and install,” but at the last moment I did “archive and install.”

My Macbook took a hit in hd space, but I guess it’s worth it with Leopard. I’ve got 12 gigs left.

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:47:44 +0000

I went with “Erase and Install” as well. I’m really happy with the way everything went, and the installing time was a lot shorter than I thought it was going to be. I’m glad I went with this route. Even though I’ve only had my MacBook since June, I needed this little boost and reason to clean out a bunch of things and start over. I’m sure you’ll have many more reviews on topics related to Leopard to come. Can’t wait!

By: Zak

Zak — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:25:09 +0000

What is the new OS like?

By: Adam Nelson

Adam Nelson — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:14:18 +0000

My sister’s MacBook did the exact same thing where it proceeded with the install, then reported that the Archive and Install failed because the drive was corrupt.

I was paranoid that she had a bad drive, so I fired up Drive Genius from another drive and scanned her hard drive for bad sectors. Everything passed with flying colors.

I ended up doing an Erase and Install on her machine, then using the migration assistant at the initial boot to move her information from the backup I did. Everything worked without a hitch. I don’t know why, but Leopard seems to deem a drive corrupt pretty easily.

My personal MacBook Pro had no problems doing an Archive and Install, though. I’ll probably stick with this install for about two weeks, then do a full Erase and Install and only move over critical information, and install most applications from scratch.

By: Dawson

Dawson — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:03:59 +0000

Thats awesome. I still use Windows Vista. Which I do like. But OS X looks awesome but the systems are very expensive, and not as customizable as Windows PC’s and games are minimal.

Also Glenn, I love your blog. But please try to post daily. You only post every 2-3 days. :(

By: Andre

Andre — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:51:18 +0000

I erased and installed, then re-imported my data using migration assistant. Worked without a hitch.