Tiger Installed

I wanted to do a clean install but wasn't given the option. Is this because I'm running Tiger on my poor little 800MHz iBook (384 Mb Ram)? Other wise fine and I love the RSS sceen saver (using TUAW, of course).

I installed on my G5 and during the disk verification it told me the disk was unable to be verified and if I wanted to continue anyways or cancel. I continued anyways and it installed fine. I put the dame disk in my powerbook and I got the same warning about the disk. I figured it worked in my G5 ill push on forward with the G4. I got an error about halfway through that the installation failed and now my G4 is dead. I reformatted the drive and called apple and am waiting for a new hopefully good DVD disk. So if it asks you if you want to continue anyways say no call apple get a new disk. G4's dont read as well as G5's I guess when it comes to errors on the disk. Lost some files lesson is to always backup.

Well, since my Mac Mini is only two month's old, and I have only some very basic applications on the machine I decided to just do the simple Upgrade. It took about 30 minutes, and Spotlight indexing only took about 15 minutes. Everything seems to be working perfectly. I like Dashboard (no ripples with the Mac Mini ATI 9200, of course) and Spotlight is cool, but may take some getting used to. Only problem I've discovered so far: Calculator won't quit when I use the Quit from the menu or ?-Q keystroke.

The change in the font could be related to your font smoothing options. 10.3 defaults to CRT level smoothing-- which looks terrible on a Powerbook. Maybe now they've fixed the default?

I did an archive and install but where it put my home directory back, and was met with beachballs all over the place. So I reinstalled it doing an archive and install but this time not moving my home dir over (I'd backed it up to my firewire drive anyway). This time it was flawless. I've been selectively copying things back over from my backup and so far it's been great. I actually took the time to clean out a whole lot of junk as well, which was nice. So, I suspect that a bunch of my plists and things were corrupted over time from my Panther install. Anyway, things are running much quicker than they were under Panther and I haven't had the beachball once!

Hey, For those who got your copy of Tiger in the mail, can you guys tell me the exact weight of the whole package? I need to figure out how much it's gonna cost me to get it shipped from Miami to Venezuela.

I waited in line at the Tyson's Corner Store in MD (the line was like 200 people long, we got there early, we were 8th). Me, my friend, and his mom all scratched off and got 10% off, so we bought tiger, iLife '05, and Griffin iMic. The installation was painless and easy, unless you count waiting and waiting and waiting. He has a pretty good Mac, Dual 1.8 Ghz G5 tower with 1.25 GB of RAM. But it took so long! It installed like Finnish and all these languages. The whole time I was like "Don't screw up, don't lose data, its not my computer, I'd die if there was a failure." There haven't been any horror stories online, yet, so I don't know why I was worried. Its working fine though and I love it! It was a great $150. Calih

i wiped my machine and installed a fresh copy of tiger. runs flawlessly thus far. you ppl dont have external firewire or extra internal hard drives ? upgrading over your old system is just careles. you should wipe your machine every major system release. your problems come from layering systems. did you at lease do a clean install (archive and install while preserving users and settings?) thats the only other way id do it. mmmm tiger

I do like the new mail app though :) and spotlight is cool

Safari 2.0 won't launch until you upgrade AcidSearch to Tiger version.