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Full Install or Upgrade?
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Hanson, MA
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Hi,
I'm running 10.1.5 on my 333mhz iMac (pokey sure, but I still love it). Anyway, I want to go to Jaguar, but will need a new hard drive (looking at 40gb Seagate Barracuda IV), so here's my question...
Not sure I can swing both financially right now...so if I get the drive, install 10.1.3 clean, upgrade to 10.1.5, then upgrade to Jag when I can swing the dough, will it run as well as a full install? Or is there a real benefit to a clean, new install of Jaguar? If there is a real difference worth being wary of, I'll bite the bullet and buy both (legally, no pirating for me, I learned my lesson here). Thanks in advance for your opinions.
Tom
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Canada
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Believe it or not, you can have both.
Buy a new hard drive, do a clean install of 10.1.3 and update to 10.1.5.
When you get Jaguar, there's an option for installing called "Archive and Install." What this does is archive your old 10.1 system and then install a clean 10.2 system. The Installer can then automatically import your 10.1 user folder (including all documents, preferences, etc.) into 10.2.
The net effect is that you have a new hard drive, a clean install of 10.2, and all of your 10.1 settings and files.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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with 10.2, There's a third option called Archive and Install. It'll give you a clean OS while preserving all your third-party apps, and all your users, documents and prefs.
Much better than the basic upgrade option, and much easier that a nuke and pave.
If you can afford a Firewire enclosure, you can stuff your old drive in it, then use an application called Carbon Copy Cloner to move your entire system intact from it to the new internal 40 GB.
Yes, Seagates are good drives. Very reliable, in general.
CV
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Washington, DC
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I would do as they noted above... Always do a clean install when you can... but Apple made this easy in Jaguar...
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: NYC
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I did the archive and install on an iMac 400. It worked fine with no speed issues either way, but recently Norton really f'ed up my system, so having everything archived I did a clean install. And guess what? It was noticably faster. I'm not saying next time I'll want to go through the hassle of a clean install (reinstalling everything I've got), but the time after that I will.
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