Help installing Tiger

[BroDan]

Ok, it's been a while since jumping up to the lastest os. I have done step releases for OSX. I am at 10.3.9 on a 12" Powerbook with 1ghz and 512 of RAM. I got Tiger. It's 10.4.3. I'd like to install it, but was wondering the best route to take. Oh, what would be the best way to back up my system in case something horrible goes wrong? Could someone take me step by step? I really don't want to wind up losing everything.

 

[dmetzcher]

Regarding backing up your system first...if you want to do that, you can use Carbon Copy Cloner, or SuperDuper, or some similar backup software, to make a clone of your current drive, if you have an external FireWire drive. If you find that something goes terribly wrong during the install, which it should not, you can always restore back to the original.

 

[bobw]

I got Tiger. It's 10.4.3.

Is this a retail version of Tiger, or from another machine.

If it's from another machine, you could have problems.

And, the best route to take would be to reformat your drive and install Tiger fresh.

 

[BroDan]

It's a 10.4.3 from the developers program from Apple. It looks like a regular copy. It's a black disk with the big X on it and it says "Mac OS X Tiger includes Xcode 2 install DVD Version 10.4.3 2Z691-5599-A." Doesn't look like a machine specific installer. I made a bootable copy of my sys to a firewire drive. It works. I can do an install where it erases my drive, but do i need to? Do i need to get 10.4 first or can I go to 10.4.3 with archive and install?

 

[bobw]

Anytime I install a new system (10.3 to 10.4) not an update, I wipe my drive and install fresh.

Never have any problems with my systems doing it this way.