Long day of downloading. For no good reason I'll say what I did.
Backed up a couple of gigs off my home machine (graphite iMac) onto one of the Mac towers in the office. Did some actual math and discovered we only get about 5.5 Mb/sec over the LAN. I'll have to look into that.
Wiped the single partition on the iMac. Made two new partitions.
Installed 9.0.4 (off CD) onto the smaller partition.
Downloaded 9.1 updater from Apple. Installed over 9.0.4.
Downloaded 9.2 updater from Apple. Tried to install - corrupt. Couldn't go back.
Installed 9.0.4 again off CD. Updated again to 9.1.
Downloaded 9.2 updater from Apple again. Installed sucessfully.
Downloaded 9.2.2 updater from Apple. Installed.
Installed 10.1 (off CD) onto the larger partition.
Downloaded developer tools (200+ Megs!) and installed.
Writing this from mozilla 0.9.6 running on OS 10.1. Feels good so far. I got a consistent 60 K/sec from Apple on the DSL. Still, that's not so fast for over half a gig of downloads. Started around noon and am just finishing up now.
I've meant to make this upgrade for some time, but I suspected it would turn into an all day adventure and so I had been putting it off. Glad I finally got it done. I traded emails a few weeks ago with mors.ante.servitium and his OS X enthusiasm sort of shamed me into finally doing it. Thanks. Everything is working well so far. I'll keep you informed on how it goes.
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Backed up a couple of gigs off my home machine (graphite iMac) onto one of the Mac towers in the office. Did some actual math and discovered we only get about 5.5 Mb/sec over the LAN. I'll have to look into that.
Wiped the single partition on the iMac. Made two new partitions.
Installed 9.0.4 (off CD) onto the smaller partition.
Downloaded 9.1 updater from Apple. Installed over 9.0.4.
Downloaded 9.2 updater from Apple. Tried to install - corrupt. Couldn't go back.
Installed 9.0.4 again off CD. Updated again to 9.1.
Downloaded 9.2 updater from Apple again. Installed sucessfully.
Downloaded 9.2.2 updater from Apple. Installed.
Installed 10.1 (off CD) onto the larger partition.
Downloaded developer tools (200+ Megs!) and installed.
Writing this from mozilla 0.9.6 running on OS 10.1. Feels good so far. I got a consistent 60 K/sec from Apple on the DSL. Still, that's not so fast for over half a gig of downloads. Started around noon and am just finishing up now.
I've meant to make this upgrade for some time, but I suspected it would turn into an all day adventure and so I had been putting it off. Glad I finally got it done. I traded emails a few weeks ago with mors.ante.servitium and his OS X enthusiasm sort of shamed me into finally doing it. Thanks. Everything is working well so far. I'll keep you informed on how it goes.
- jim 12-17-2001 12:50 am