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Trouble free Tiger update/install ...??
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Hi there,
In this forum I keep reading of the problems people are having with 'Tiger', so therefore
I would like to know how many people out there have installed or updated to 'Tiger' and have enjoyed a trouble free installation or update? Plus how many people are now running a problem free system after installing 'Tiger' - there must be some happy customers .... somewhere ...??!!
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Originally Posted by voicebox
Hi there,
In this forum I keep reading of the problems people are having with 'Tiger', so therefore
I would like to know how many people out there have installed or updated to 'Tiger' and have enjoyed a trouble free installation or update? Plus how many people are now running a problem free system after installing 'Tiger' - there must be some happy customers .... somewhere ...??!!
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voicebox
I just did a straightforward upgrade on top of 10.3.8 on my powerbook (Dec. 2004 1,5GHz 15" model). No real problems. I had to mess with FINK a bit, due to the shift to the new 10.4 tree, recompile a few ofther things (eg. G77), but basically I had, nor have, any issues with Tiger. All my regular apps work fine, things seem faster, generally (boot, app loading, that sort of thing).
The only thing I notice is airport. At work we use TLS certificate authentication against an 802.1x system. Now on wake-from-sleep or startup, I have to always select the secure network (it used to automatically reconnect in Panther). That's only at work though - it reconnects automatically to my WPA-Personal (TKIP) Linksys wireless at home just fine.
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Originally Posted by voicebox
Hi there,
In this forum I keep reading of the problems people are having with 'Tiger', so therefore
I would like to know how many people out there have installed or updated to 'Tiger' and have enjoyed a trouble free installation or update? Plus how many people are now running a problem free system after installing 'Tiger' - there must be some happy customers .... somewhere ...??!!
Best
voicebox
A lot of people (read: most) are satisfied. Only the people with problems post about problems that's why it looks as if there are a lot of problems with Tiger. I for one have had zero problems... Sure there are some bug, but any OS has them and they'll probably get fixed anyway.
I did a clean install.
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I've done a simple upgrade on two machines, now. (still waiting for CarbonCopyCloner before I move the work machines) They were both pretty trouble-free installations. I've had a couple minor issues, but nothing awful. Actually, the Powerbook is rock solid. It's my G5 tower that's been just a tad dicey, but it's overdue for a good spring-cleaning, anyway. The OS on it has basically been upgraded since 10.1. (migrated it from my Cube 10 months ago) So I'm thinking the problems with it (minor, at that) are probably just cruft.
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My installation of Tiger works fine on my Ibook. All of my applications bar one work, but it isn't important anyway.
The only other problem I have is that the Translator widget is rather flakey, but i'm sure a fix will be released for that soon.
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Originally Posted by chris v
I've done a simple upgrade on two machines, now. (still waiting for CarbonCopyCloner before I move the work machines) They were both pretty trouble-free installations. I've had a couple minor issues, but nothing awful. Actually, the Powerbook is rock solid. It's my G5 tower that's been just a tad dicey, but it's overdue for a good spring-cleaning, anyway. The OS on it has basically been upgraded since 10.1. (migrated it from my Cube 10 months ago) So I'm thinking the problems with it (minor, at that) are probably just cruft.
Have you tried CCC with the "sudo open" approach ( http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=5264. )?
It works for me.
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chris, Just wondering, why would you use CCC in order to upgrade? Do you just mean you're waiting so that you can perform a backup?
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I've done three installations.
The first time I upgrade my current iBook. Everything was fine, no real slowdowns but later on decided a fresh install would be nice so I used some iPod Backup program to save my home folder in a DMG file on my external drive and wipped the computer clean.
Installed a fresh copy of 10.4 and still, no problems, and it's really no different in speed than the original upgrade.
I also upgrade my 15inch pbook. Upgrade only, not archive install, not fresh, simply upgrade. Went perfect. No problems.
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I've installed on my G5 and Powerbook (bought the family pack of course) - one I did a fresh install on a new drive and the other I did an "archive and install" - no problems with either, just as with all the other Mac OS updates I have done.
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I did an archive and install on two Macs, a PowerBook and a mini and no problems. My PB went 25 days of uptime till 10.4.1 came up and then more than a week of uptime before I ran the updated DiskWarrior on it.
Same with the mini, no problems whatsoever.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
chris, Just wondering, why would you use CCC in order to upgrade? Do you just mean you're waiting so that you can perform a backup?
Yeah, I use CCC's scheduler to write chron scripts to back stuff up automatically, and don't want to break that and have to sort it using work-arounds, right now.
I prefer it, becuase you have an exact duplicate of all your files, uncompressed on the backupdrive, unlike most other backup apps. What I want/need is an exact mirror of both my OS and data partitions that I can boot to if a drive crashes, without downtime. I don't see how Retrospect or Apple's backup will do this.
The sudo trick apparently works for most folks, but not all, and I'm not sure if tasks written in the scheduler will work even with that workaround. So, since I don't feel like switching tools right now, and 10.3.9 is humming along, I'll give Bombich a little while to get it updated.
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Originally Posted by Kvasir
just gave that a whirl, and got an error concerning "could not change ignore permissions on volume ##..."
No go, here.
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