Webs’ Random Ideas

Below are my documented steps of installing Snow Leopard:

1. Inserted disc with 10.5  up and running
2. Click the icon to install 10.6
3. Click through the menu options
4. Click Install
5. Enter User account info
6. Install process starts
7. Install reports about 1 hour before it will be finished
8. I came back and it was already finished with a setup assistant
9. I entered the info and had a warning about “Rosetta”. This app translates PowerMac apps to work on Intel CPUs so I think I should of installed from the get go. After a restart and seeing the message again I put the CD back in, opened it and clicked on “Optional Installs”. Then the “Option Installs.mpkg” which opened a wizard where I was able to select the other packages. This walked me through the rest.
10. Once finished I rebooted and everything seemed fine. Only odd thing was that I needed to re-enable the airport or wifi card.

All files and settings didn’t seem to go anywhere. Everything looks the exact same. As far as I can tell the upgrade didn’t even happen. In fact, if I didn’t tell and show my wife I was upgrading her system, she may have never known.

A gander at the list should tell any tech that the upgrade was crazy easy. Any tech who has done an upgrade knows the pains and this one presented none I could find. Also that list is pretty short and most of the items were on there to pad the list. I think it would of been a little pretentious of me to only have 3 items.