05-31-2008, 06:41 PM
[quote Ted King]I have a Mac Pro (2007 version) with 4gigs of ram and three hard drives. I have 10.4.11 installed now, but I am going to try to switch to 10.5 (the install disk is just plain 10.5). I plan on leaving the Tiger install and put Leopard on a different drive and then have the other drive for Time Machine. I'd like to leave the 10.4 install alone for the time being.
I am thinking of doing a doing a "fresh" install on a reformatted drive and then using Migration Assistant to move files over from the 10.4 disk to the new 10.5 install on the separate disk. A few questions:
Is there any reason that won't work?
Should I run the stand-alone 10.5.3 updater before or after running Migration Assistant?
I have a Logitech MX Laser wireless mouse I love. I have read that there is a problem with Leopard and the Application Enhancer that the Logitech mouse software uses - is that still the case, and if so, what steps can I take to avoid problems (please don't suggest a different mouse - I like this one too much to give it up)?
Are there other issues I should watch out for?
Thanks.
I did something very similar to what you plan to do a few months back. I have a
Mac Pro, had been running 10.4.11, installed Leopard on a freshly-reformatted drive,
immediately updated to 10.5.2, and then used Migration Assistant to migrate everything
over from my Tiger boot drive. If the Application Enhancer you are talking about is APE
from Unsanity, make sure it is updated to the latest version, so it can cleanly disable
itself in Leopard--it won't work in Leopard unless you risk installing the Leopard-
compatible beta version.
It couldn't hurt to have all your necessary-for-Leopard application updates downloaded
and applied in Tiger before your install and migrate process begins.
Other than my slight disorientation in adapting to Leopard, this process worked fine on
my Mac Pro.
I am thinking of doing a doing a "fresh" install on a reformatted drive and then using Migration Assistant to move files over from the 10.4 disk to the new 10.5 install on the separate disk. A few questions:
Is there any reason that won't work?
Should I run the stand-alone 10.5.3 updater before or after running Migration Assistant?
I have a Logitech MX Laser wireless mouse I love. I have read that there is a problem with Leopard and the Application Enhancer that the Logitech mouse software uses - is that still the case, and if so, what steps can I take to avoid problems (please don't suggest a different mouse - I like this one too much to give it up)?
Are there other issues I should watch out for?
Thanks.
I did something very similar to what you plan to do a few months back. I have a
Mac Pro, had been running 10.4.11, installed Leopard on a freshly-reformatted drive,
immediately updated to 10.5.2, and then used Migration Assistant to migrate everything
over from my Tiger boot drive. If the Application Enhancer you are talking about is APE
from Unsanity, make sure it is updated to the latest version, so it can cleanly disable
itself in Leopard--it won't work in Leopard unless you risk installing the Leopard-
compatible beta version.
It couldn't hurt to have all your necessary-for-Leopard application updates downloaded
and applied in Tiger before your install and migrate process begins.
Other than my slight disorientation in adapting to Leopard, this process worked fine on
my Mac Pro.