{"id":381,"date":"2007-11-10T10:45:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T14:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/wordpress\/?p=381"},"modified":"2014-03-07T09:41:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T13:41:28","slug":"leopard-upgrade-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2007\/11\/leopard-upgrade-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopard Upgrade Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

I upgraded to Leopard again – this time I did it the way I have always done it. Back everything up – blast the hard drive completely and then a fresh install.<\/p>\n

I figured that some clever gadget would help me restore my home directories from my backup – perhaps I just cannot figure out newfangled gadgets. So here was my process – feel free to educate me.<\/p>\n

Boot into the CD and run the Disk Utility<\/p>\n

Make an image from my main partitions onto a USB drive – I did not really want an image – but it was all Disk Utility wanted to let me do.<\/p>\n

Blast the main disk in my laptop and install Leopard<\/p>\n

Create a new account called “csevadmin” as part of the install – do not create the all important “csev” account yet.<\/p>\n

Once log in is complete, you are logged in as csev admin.<\/p>\n

Make a new account called “csev” – make it an admin.<\/p>\n

Still in csevadmin pop up a terminal window (finally a decent user interface) – Become root<\/p>\n

sudo sh
\ncd \/Users
\nmv csev csev.org
\ncp -r \/Volumes\/Blah\/Users\/csev \/Users<\/p>\n

Note: Using cp was a bad mistake – I reset all my dates. I should have read my own blog post<\/a> and done this instead:<\/p>\n

cd \/Volumes\/Blah\/Users
\ntar cf – csev | ( cd \/Users ; tar cfv – )<\/p>\n

That would have saved my file dates . Ah well onward and upward. Once the directory \/Users\/csev is in place you need the magic chown command – which is now different in Leopard.<\/p>\n

chown -R csev:staff csev<\/p>\n

The “staff” is new – it makes a lot more sense than making a group for every user – but it is different. Also I now learned the modern “:” form of the chown so I don’t get nicked for using deprecated syntax every 18 months.<\/p>\n

All in all I am much happier with a clean install – even though it took me hours to reinstall all the apps – I lost media for iWork06 so I went and bought iWork08 and I will need to go buy iLife 08 as well because of lost media – heck I need to upgrade anyways.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah – and Time Machine is working – It was easy to exclude my Final Cut Express Documents. It did not work on the first try – but I went to sleep – in the morning all was better. I like that kind of software. <\/p>\n

I have never really ever backed up my computer until now – thanks Apple.<\/p>\n

Really cool trick with Leopard – Drag a directory into the doc and put an image in the directory named aaa-something.gif so it is the first thing in the directory – then the doc will see it and the image will appear on the folder – my rails_apps folder on my dock has the cute rails logo on it using this technique by naming the image aaa-rails.png<\/p>\n

I am so loving the Rails and Ruby install on Leopard.<\/p>\n

Plaxo still does not work – even with a fresh install of everything. I guess I will just book mark Google
\ncalendar on my iPhone and give up using my iPhone’s calendar – too bad – Plaxo was sweet while it worked (4 weeks). Plaxo felt like such a Rube Goldberg contraption byways – it is not surprising that the wheels came of on on OS upgrade.<\/p>\n

Luckily – Google Calendar<\/a> has an iPhone view.<\/p>\n

I will let the dust settle on calendars – if Spanning Sync releases a 10.5 version – I may just buy – it some things you should pay for to motivate folks to work.<\/p>\n

Here is my holiday wish for Apple:<\/p>\n

In the migration tool – Allow me to (a) mount disk images and (b) find the place where the old \/User’s directory is. The current UI is too simple and does not handle the common case – it really wants to back up and restore onto the *same* computer – not an external drive.<\/p>\n

Also – we need new operating system releases more often so I don’t forget how to upgrade my system in between releases. Next time it will be too long and I won’t even come back and read this blog post. And again I will be whining – but oh well.<\/p>\n

Here is my New Years Resolution:<\/p>\n

Since I am an AppleSeed Participant – I promise to test the upgrades for the next O\/S – this last released I focused on testing the X\/Server stuff – next release I will test the desktop stuff as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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