Re: Best practices for upgrading?
Re: Best practices for upgrading?
- Subject: Re: Best practices for upgrading?
- From: Scott Tooker <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 09:43:44 -0700
Another option (somewhat orthogonal to the upgrade vs. clean install
issue) is to place your home directory on a secondary volume and then
either lay down a symlink in /Users to point to it or edit the
account information with NetInfo Manager (I believe you need to set
the "Home" property for your account).
A place like Mac OS X Hints should have more info on the details.
Having the user account separate from the system volume makes it much
easier to do a clean install of the system and keep all your
preferences intact. This doesn't solve the problem of having to
install 3rd-party software, but I find that getting all my prefs
restored if I create a new user from scratch is a much larger problem
than installing a number of applications.
Scott
On May 5, 2005, at 7:09 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
on 2005-05-05 8:55 AM, Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD) at
email@hidden
wrote:
Thanks to one and all for your replies on what I should do when
upgrading; I'm
going to go ahead and do a clean install as that seems to be the
consensus on
what is best.
Sorry if I'm too late, but I want to register a contrary point of
view.
I have tried all of the standard installation techniques for new
versions of
Mac OS X over the years, and I feel strongly that "upgrade" install
is by
far the easiest.
I have 4 computers on which I work, and 3 of them have a very large
amount
of software installed.
"Erase and install" requires me to spend roughly one week, full-time,
reinstalling third-party software and resetting preferences, etc.
(The last
time I tried this, I didn't have sufficient external storage to try
cloning
the startup disk and restoring it, so I can't comment on that option.)
"Archive and install" always leaves mysterious gaps in all sorts of
software, and it takes a long time to hunt them all down and fix
them. (Most
of this seems to be related to the fact that "archive and install"
does not
restore everything in the "local," as opposed to "user," Library,
but there
seem to be other issues as well.)
My favored "upgrade" install has never given me more than a couple
of hours
of grief. Currently, for example, about 2 hours of detective work
led me to
the discovery that the new USB Overdrive X 1.3.8 upgrade is in fact
incompatible with Tiger. Uninstalling it pending a fix from the
developer
has solved that problem, and now everything else except my iMic
appears to
be working normally.
Before installing the new Xcode Tools, however, its seems like a
good safety
measure to run the perl uninstall-devtools.pl script, as described
in the
Xcode Tools readme. I always do that because it takes so little time.
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