upgrading to snow leopard
1) Make sure you’re all upgraded (10.5.x) before moving to snow leopard. If you aren’t, the installer will have you do it, so it’s all good.
2) Log out all but one user. If you don’t things will still work, but the installer won’t continue until you do, so do that too to save a few minutes.
3) It takes about an hour
iMac: everything worked fine after the upgrade: Time Machine, Adium, iTunes, Firefox. These being the main apps I tried.
MacbookPro #1: Time Machine worked, so did mounting net disks, iTunes and Safari. Spirited Away needed Rosetta. The OS was smart enough to let me know about Rosetta and install it on its own. Worked fine. Wireless and hard wired connections worked. World of Warcraft works, though my toons are still lame. Couldn’t get Exchange to work, and it’s back to Entourage. Oh well. VPN through Juniper Network Connect didn’t work and I had to do this for it to:
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/juniper/nc/{version}/
sudo mkdir ‘/Applications/Network Connect.app/Contents/Frameworks’
iStat menus are gone, but the desktop widget still works.
Still have two macbook pros to upgrade, but it’s looking good so far.
Julio Santos said,
August 29, 2009 @ 4:49 pm
mysql seems to be broken…