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How do YOU re-install your OS?
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Hi,
Now that .5.6 is here I'm planning on doing a completely fresh install on my G5 over the Christmas break and I was wondering how you guys woud do the same thing?
I plan on doing it in this order, using my well-proven, tried-and-tested mumbo-jumbo steps.
1) Making 2 backups on separate hard discs of my data.
2) Format my hard drive and writing zeros (I always write zeros so any bad sectors can be found and noted - don't know if it actually works like this, but this is always how I've done it).
3) Pull out the power cable for 10 minutes or so and do a reboot so I can reset the PRAM.
4) Install 10.5.0
5) Install 10.5.6 Combo updater (I always use the Combo updater, even when I go from point-to-point revisions - again, just something I've always done, rightly or wrongly).
6) Re-install my apps and data, etc.
7) Suffer from placebo as I pat myself on the back, thinking how much Snappier my machine feels 
So, how do you do yours?
Cheers,
Matthew
(Last edited by Matthew Attoe; Dec 16, 2008 at 10:11 AM.
(Reason:Fat fingers))
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Is there something wrong with your current install? Or do you just have so much free time that you don't know what to do with yourself?
Here's what I do:
1. Backup current OS to external drive, in case update borks install.
2. Run software update.
3. Done.
With a tool like CCC or SuperDuper you can be back in business in half an hour, even if the upgrade eats your cat & pisses on your favorite rug.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
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Why would I reinstall my OS?
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Chuck
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Originally Posted by chris v 
Is there something wrong with your current install? Or do you just have so much free time that you don't know what to do with yourself?
Probably a bit of both, if I'm honest
I'm just having a lot of beachballing recently, got a lot of crap on my machine that I don't need any more and just fancy a fresh install.
(Last edited by ghporter; Dec 16, 2008 at 06:31 PM.
(Reason:Fixed quote tag))
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Even so, you can skip a lot of those steps.
1. Backup stuff
2. Archive & install 10.5.0
3. Run combo updater.
4. Delete apps you no longer use.
You can reset the PRAM on any reboot, without the pulling-the-powercord business, and wrriting zeros is really not necessary, unless the FBI is after you, in which case, you'll want the 35-pass option, and see you in 10 days, when it's done.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
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With a tool like CCC or SuperDuper the free and included DiskUtility > Restore you can be back in business in half an hour, even if the upgrade eats your cat & pisses on your favorite rug.
Fixinated.
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"Back Up Now" in Time Machine. Format hard drive that OS was on. Install 10.5 and restore everything from TM backup.
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