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Hi Guys,

Finally thinking of upgrading to Leopard when 10.5.2 goes gold, but I have a question over the Archive Install option.



So....
Does Archive Install backup Tiger to your hard drive before updating your existing Tiger install

OR

Does Archive Install archive Tiger to the hard drive then create a fresh Leopard load so you still have to reload your apps from your archive?

It's just that I have Tiger exactly where I want it - I have all the after market software apps working, and don't want to reinstall it all again when I load Leopard.

Cheers


Mark.

Archive and Install copies the current system to "Previous System" and installs a fresh installation.

more details here - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120

Thanks for that - you'd think that information would be easy to find

If anyone has done the update from Leopard (not archive install) over Tiger, can they tell me if all the apps continue to work - or if you have to reload them afterward?

Cheers

Actually this is a better document.... http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301270

I did the archive and install this time and (unlike previous times) have had little issue. Note the ""Preserve Users and Network Settings" option...select that and you'll find that most (if not all) of your preferences and network settings come across....so you just start up and keep working...no need to do reinstalls of apps....maybe just some 10.5 specific updates.

There was a post in another thread that said that "Archive and install" was a bad option....previously with issues I have then done a clean install....but things seem to be great on 2 machines that I've done this option.

Phil

Thanks Phil

I was just wondering if I'd have to reload Aperture, Photoshop and all the damn updates

Thats what i meant by apps

I simply did an upgrade install on both my work and home Macs and didn't come across any major problems with apps.