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Upgrade, Clean install saga continues
A few weeks before Tiger was released I asked, 'Tiger: Upgrade, Archive and Install, or Clean Install?' which exposed a rift in the Mac community that rivals the virulent hatred that is associated with the two schools of thought on the number of buttons Apple's mice should have on them (I'm a multibutton man myself).Far be it from me to fan the flames of any argument, let alone one amongst Mac folks, but I just came across this interesting article entitled 'The Myth of Clean Installs,' which tells us that there is no such thing as a 'clean install.' Who knew?
It seems that 'Archive and Install' is the most like the Clean Install of the bad old days (pre OS X days that is. And no one leave me nasty comments. I liked OS 9 as much as the next guy, but I haven't used it in years, and you can have my copy when you pry it from my cold dead hands).
You learn something new every day.
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Stuart Ressler said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
I'm a novice Mac user, and since my life depends on my iBook and the files within, I was pretty nervous about upgrading to Tiger. What the hell, I decided, and went for the Erase and Install option, with an external firewire disk. It all turned out just fine, and on my blog I posted my method which I feel may be suitable for other novices as well.I was helped by the information on your blog, I provided a link back. Cheers,
Stuart
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