Snapturtle

I “mentioned yesterday”:/archives/2003/10/23/12.50.55/ that I wouldn’t be installing Panther on day one. Who am I kidding, forget that, I’m installing it once I get the chance (which may not be tonight as I’m going to Autumn’s school hoedown). Why miss out on some of the new features even though some existing applications may break. I’ve backed up my existing 10.2.8 G4 using “Carbon Copy Cloner”:http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html so if I do experience a horrible problem I can just restore from the backup painlessly (I hope).

The upgrade process always makes me a tad worried, what happens if it goes horribly wrong. At worst I’d have to restore from my 10.2.8 backup or just install 10.3 from scratch.

Which brings me to the question of do I upgrade my existing 10.2.8 install which is only a week old since it was re-installed fresh or do I install 10.3 fresh and archive the old 10.2.8 install? Previously I’ve upgraded from plain 9.1 to 9.2, then from 9.2 to 10.0, continuing on to upgrade 10.0 to 10.1 and finally from 10.1 to 10.2. Now, I never experienced any problems with just upgrading the existing OS although the recent “iChatAV crash”:/archives/2003/10/14/06.37.35/ which caused me to reformat may have had something to do with all those previous upgrades.

The FedEx man has my Panther package in route, only a matter of hours now until I throw caution to the wind.

Update: Through the wonders of ESP… err, cell phone technology, my wife has informed me that the “package” has arrived. Don’t run away now Mr. Panther, I’ll be home soon.