can i do this

[otispunkmeyer]

so i hear upgrading isnt the way to go.... most recommend a fresh install. but i dont want to have to spend ages getting things back how i liked.

is it possible to do this

1) make a read only back up of my MBP hard drive (ends in .dmg, so i assume this is right)
2) have leopard install do a "erase and install"
3) use migration assistant to bring back all my apps and settings from the read only back up
4) use the back up in case things go tits up

is there anything i should be aware of, or will migration assistant take care of everything?

 

[keeleysam]

You can do that, but I'd just do an Archive and Install.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
You can do that, but I'd just do an Archive and Install.

Yea exactly, what he is proposing is a way too complicated method that accomplishes the same thing

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: TheStu

Originally posted by: keeleysam
You can do that, but I'd just do an Archive and Install.

Yea exactly, what he is proposing is a way too complicated method that accomplishes the same thing

i read that you needed a decent amount of space to basically keep your archived copy and the fresh install as well and i was worried that i maybe didnt have the space, but apparently the leopard install only needs 9gig and after deleting my XP VM i have nearly 100gig free on this machine, so i guess archive + install will be sufficient

 

[Tyranicus]

Unless your VM is enormous, you shouldn't even need to delete that. As long as you have at least 15GB of free space, you'll be fine. I did an Archive and Install on my MacBook Pro with 30GB free when I upgraded from the Leopard beta to the real thing back in October.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

i set my vm to use like 20gb, but i deleted it last night after saving what i wanted and it released almost 40gb back to me! i plan to get leopard, bootcamp XP for graphics intensive things like solidworks and then use parallels to load it as a VM when i just need easy stuff like VB 6

only problem with booting a VM from an actual XP partition is it takes a little longer, but its not too long to wait