Mac OS X Leopard 10.5: READ THIS BEFORE INSTALLING
Posted by Daniel in AppleOct 26th, 2007 | 13 responses
I just installed Leopard. It’s awesome. Installing the actual operating system took about an hour and Time Machine is updating the computer as we speak. All the new features are amazing and remind me why I switched to mac in the first place 
Of course, installing a new operating system is always a royal pain for me. Leopard only had a few hiccups…
- Don’t try to use an external monitor if you have a laptop. I hook my macbook pro up to a 30 inch display with the laptop screen dimmed down all the way. When I got to the first install screen, the screen blacked out so I couldn’t see anything, and I couldn’t change the brightness, so I had no choice but to hold the power button and restart the computer, unhooking all the peripheral stuff like my iPod, cinema display, keyboard, etc…Before you install, unhook everything besides an external hard drive.
- When I first began installing Leopard, the estimated completion time was around 4 hours, but don’t worry! It only takes around an hour.
That was easy enough. The computer takes a while to start after you install Leopard, updating the system for 10.5. When you get to your desktop, Time Machine will ask you to back up your computer. I recommend taking a few hour vacation from the computer while this happens, because as I am writing this article, my Finder is completely broken and I don’t know when my hard drives will be backed up!
I’m not sure if trying to use spotlight helped either, because it’s trying to index my computer for searching while Time Machine is backing up the hard drives. Uh oh! hah
There are obviously a few bugs that need to be worked out. Within the first ten minutes of using Leopard:
- Time Machine completely broke my Finder. I can’t open any windows or folders.
- Deleting to-do items in Mail doesn’t delete items in iCal. In other words, they don’t sync.
- While trying to login to g-mail using Safari (WebKit), text boxes only show the last letter as you are typing.
I’m sure some of these problems will be fixed after I restart my computer, but for now I can’t do much and I am clueless to when I can restart!
Oh well, just a few bugs. I am still admiring it! A Long awaited present from Apple
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What kind of installation did you use? A clean install?
Did you fix your problems?
I look forward to the changes, some seem quite neat. Some lack of perfection though.
I did the upgrade from 10.4 Tiger.
The problems mentioned throughout the install haven’t come up again, but there are lots of bugs in Leopard and I’m glad I bought a license key for the update!
It will be amazing when it’s all polished.
“Before you install, unhook everything besides an external hard drive.”
Actually, when I installed, everything went fine until the restart; then I had the BSOD. I ran Disk Warrior and found 18 items that were wrong. I “fixed” them and restarted but still got BSOD.
I hooked up my iBook to the Internet and found several references to the fact that EVERYTHING should be unhooked, particularly Firewire. Since I was (almost) all back up to my Firewire drive, I had to erase the main drive and reinstall. That worked fine.
I was caused about five hours of nervous time trying to fix a problem I shouldn’t have had, and sure, I am still discovering stuff that I didn’t know was being wiped off during the reinstall, so yes, I really wish I’d known to unhook my back-up drive.
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