Just pre ordered the Snow Leopard upgrade disc the other day for £25 as I have Leopard currently and wanted to know with the upgrade disc does it require leopard to be installed or can it do a fresh install ?
Also If I wanted to get the full version ( assuming there is a full version ) of snow leopard would I have to purchase the box set or do they do a full version of snow leopard ?
If they do - how much is it in uk pounds ?
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I was contemplating wiping and re installing leopard but does that mean I should bother getting Leopard up to 10.5.8 and then do the snow leopard upgrade and then try and re install all my apps or just wipe it completely after a format and then try and install snow leopard from the upgrade disc to see if it will install it and if not then do the above mentioned installation of leopard and running disk util to correct permissions before and after each update.
You should always update OS X to the latest minor version (now 10.5.8) as it improves stability and security. If you don't want to update to Snow Leopard right now, that's fine. Leopard (10.5) will recieve updates in the future, as it is the last version of OS X with support for PowerPC processors and previous versions have as well.
Tiger (10.4) still recieves secutity updates, although the last proper update (to 10.4.11) occurred in november 2007 (about a month after Leopards release).
Up to now everything regarding the installation process of the retail disks is speculation, simply because noone got their hands on it yet. The only information we have right now are the developer builds.
Apparently in the past those "update"-DVDs could only perform an installation if...
You mentioned backing up passwords - whats the best way of backing up / restoring passwords using keychain I believe ??
Other then that I will be backing up and wiping and doing a fresh install and doing the updates as you mention and then go straight to snow leopard before installing my applications
Or should I install all my applications before updating to snow leopard or do the applications afterwards ?
The keychain passwords are stored in /library/keychains and /network/library/keychains
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If you're not wiping the harddisk it really makes no difference if you install your applications before or after installing Snow Leopard. But I'd recommend installing the apps after you wipe your drive, because otherwise they're gone. (I hope I got you right there...)
Some applications may have problems running with Snow Leopard. A nice little app called AppFresh (http://metaquark.de/appfr
According to my information (read: no warranties here) if you wipe your disk it is not necessary to install 10.5 before you install 10.6. Snow Leopard can be installed on a wiped / factory new harddrive (btw: this is a good opportunity to install a bigger harddrive) if you have a 10.5 DVD at hand. After it is veryfied you have a Leopard DVD, you will be able to continue the 10.6 installation.
But if I'm wrong and you did have to install 10.5 prior to 10.6 it'd be a huge waste of time and a major annoyance to many, many Mac users - I really don't think Apple is interested in that...
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by: DorschPosted on 2009-08-27 at 01:52:46ID: 25195809
There's a lot of inconsistent information... While Amazon.com and some of their commenters claim, that it needs a 10.5 installation the official requirements from Apple's website don't mention 10.5 (http://www.apple.com/maco
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From my experience from past releases (10.5) it is possible to do a fresh install. It would be a horrible inconvenience to have to install 10.5 before the 10.6 update in case you reformat your drive - that's something rather untypical for Apple.
OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" - System Requirements