Leopard has landed on my iMac!

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.