Comments on: Leopard Erase and Install Success – Howto http://techdebug.com/blog/2008/02/25/leopard-erase-and-install-success-howto/ Why talk when you can fly Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:27:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: lantrix http://techdebug.com/blog/2008/02/25/leopard-erase-and-install-success-howto/comment-page-1/#comment-4918 lantrix Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:44:14 +0000 http://techdebug.com/blog/2008/02/26/leopard-erase-and-install-success-howto/#comment-4918 Sorry it didn't work for you Brian. Your old disk was running 10.2 though? Unfortunately I only tested and documented in this post for 10.4 (tiger) to 10.5 (leopard). I see there have been other people with similar issues migrating from an earlier version to 10.5, and someone has <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6mkjg3" rel="nofollow">even created a guide</a> on the issues surrounding PPC to Intel migration. Hope you have luck. Sorry it didn’t work for you Brian. Your old disk was running 10.2 though? Unfortunately I only tested and documented in this post for 10.4 (tiger) to 10.5 (leopard).

I see there have been other people with similar issues migrating from an earlier version to 10.5, and someone has even created a guide on the issues surrounding PPC to Intel migration.

Hope you have luck.

]]> By: Brian H http://techdebug.com/blog/2008/02/25/leopard-erase-and-install-success-howto/comment-page-1/#comment-4867 Brian H Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:46:44 +0000 http://techdebug.com/blog/2008/02/26/leopard-erase-and-install-success-howto/#comment-4867 Well that sounded good to me. So I followed the above steps to get Leopard on to my daughter's Powermac G4. Two previous 10.5 installations on my G5 and my son's Imac failed to complete as update-and-installs, so the disks had to be erased with everything manually reinstalled for back-ups. A real chore. I used a 500Gb Firewire drive with around 150Gb free and everything went well at first. OS 10.5.6 is now on the Powerbook as a clean installation and it will happily boot from the Firewire drive with all of my daughter's stuff present and correct. However, when I boot from Leopard and try to migrate her old account back, the Assistant doesn't find the right user. Instead it finds MY name and identifies my 300-odd Gb of stuff as "additional data" to import. I tried leaving it for half an hour but it still didn't find any more accounts. There is in fact no working system under my name on that disk. I had 10.2 running on it three or four years ago but deleted all the system stuff when I no longer needed it. I can understand the Assistant finding the vestiges of my old ID from invisible files on the drive, but why won't it then go on to find the fully working ID that has just been installed there? Anyone got a clue how this can be solved other than by cloning the account elsewhere, wiping the Firewire disk and trying again (preparing for that would take me longer than a manual migration)? Well that sounded good to me. So I followed the above steps to get Leopard on to my daughter’s Powermac G4. Two previous 10.5 installations on my G5 and my son’s Imac failed to complete as update-and-installs, so the disks had to be erased with everything manually reinstalled for back-ups. A real chore.

I used a 500Gb Firewire drive with around 150Gb free and everything went well at first. OS 10.5.6 is now on the Powerbook as a clean installation and it will happily boot from the Firewire drive with all of my daughter’s stuff present and correct.

However, when I boot from Leopard and try to migrate her old account back, the Assistant doesn’t find the right user. Instead it finds MY name and identifies my 300-odd Gb of stuff as “additional data” to import. I tried leaving it for half an hour but it still didn’t find any more accounts.

There is in fact no working system under my name on that disk. I had 10.2 running on it three or four years ago but deleted all the system stuff when I no longer needed it.

I can understand the Assistant finding the vestiges of my old ID from invisible files on the drive, but why won’t it then go on to find the fully working ID that has just been installed there?

Anyone got a clue how this can be solved other than by cloning the account elsewhere, wiping the Firewire disk and trying again (preparing for that would take me longer than a manual migration)?

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