Well, I finally took the plunge. After yesterday’s problems installing it on my iBook, I took all the precautions that I can and took the plunge and installed it on my iMac.
Steps:
- Buy a 1 TB drive from Costco.
- Plug it in and realize it’s dead.
- Exchange 1TB drive at Costco.
- Plug it in and it works!
- Check main drive using DiskWarrior
- Make a bootable backup using Superduper
- Install Leopard by doing an ‘Upgrade’ install.
Done!
All my settings seem to be working. Had a hiccup with my keychain. For whatever reason Leopard didn’t read it properly. But strangely, even though I created a new keychain with the same name, the new – supposedly empty – keychain had all my old passwords!
I haven’t bumped into any incompatibility yet with any of the software that I use regularly:
- Path Finder
- BBEdit
- PowerMail
- Interarchy
- Hogwasher
- Vienna
- Adium
- SpamSieve
- Ulysses
- Photoshop
So far so good. The only thing that needed work to get it back up to its previous working status was my Apache/PHP/Mysql.