Comments on: Avoid Leopard teething issues http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2007/10/avoid_leopard_teething_issues/ tips and downloads to help you at work and play Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:13:58 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Yellowlees Douglas http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2007/10/avoid_leopard_teething_issues/comment-page-1/#comment-5633 Yellowlees Douglas Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:09:35 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2007/10/29/avoid_leopard_teething_issues.html#comment-5633 <p>I installed Leopard on my office mac, a late 2006 G5 iMac, core dual Intel processors on board, 3Gigs of RAM. The install disc, when I performend the recommended media check of the DVD, hangs after a screen recommended cleaning the disc, which had failed the media check. After that, the iMac went into hang mode with every reboot, apparently, so the tech in Cupertino told me, because the system had somehow been overwritten, even though I'd never got past the bloody media check. I had to scrounge up an old G3 iMac, put the G5 in Target mode, retrieve all my data from the G5, do an erase and clean install on the G5, then put the G3 back into Target mode to pull all the files back again. Net time lost: 14 hours. Not pretty.</p> <p>The look and feel of Leopard is a significant departure from the previous cats, so I need a bit time to get accustomed to it. Otherwise, no compatibility issues, even with some of my quirkier apps. </p> I installed Leopard on my office mac, a late 2006 G5 iMac, core dual Intel processors on board, 3Gigs of RAM. The install disc, when I performend the recommended media check of the DVD, hangs after a screen recommended cleaning the disc, which had failed the media check. After that, the iMac went into hang mode with every reboot, apparently, so the tech in Cupertino told me, because the system had somehow been overwritten, even though I’d never got past the bloody media check. I had to scrounge up an old G3 iMac, put the G5 in Target mode, retrieve all my data from the G5, do an erase and clean install on the G5, then put the G3 back into Target mode to pull all the files back again. Net time lost: 14 hours. Not pretty.

The look and feel of Leopard is a significant departure from the previous cats, so I need a bit time to get accustomed to it. Otherwise, no compatibility issues, even with some of my quirkier apps.

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