This HD arrangement is a virtual time machine, enabling me to boot to Panther, Tiger, or Leopard at will, while also using said drives for external storage. The other partition still has the Panther drive I cloned when I upgraded to Tiger in 2005. ![]() For a failsafe backup, clone my entire 10.4 Tiger drive to a blank partition of my external HD. Step 1: Download one of the most beautifully simple freeware apps, Carbon Copy Cloner. Setup: PowerMac G5, dual 1.8 GHz PowerPC processor (late 2003)ΔΆ GB RAM, 2 x 250 GB internal HDs, 1 x 500 GB external HD With this in mind, here's a summarized version of my upgrade to OS X Leopard, released late October 2007. There's a lot that goes into a proper upgrade, mostly because you never really want to upgrade a pro system, you want to start over with a completely fresh install, backing up your vital data and erasing yourself a fresh clean slate to install your latest OS on. ![]() I always like to think that upgrading one's system software is a piece of cake, but invariably it takes up 8-10 hours at least, and continues to gnaw away your time once you actually get using it.
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