Home Forums Mac Software Mac Operating Systems Installing SnowLeopard over Tiger

I have finally bitten the bullet and am installing 10.6 over 10.4 on a trusty iMac as I write. Installation says it will take 43 minutes.

(We've got 4 Macs here: 2 came with SL preinstalled, the others were on Tiger, waiting for me to get used to SL and go for it. I'm writing on a new SL Mac, which I've got used to.)

Before I put the instal disk in, I copied over all the iPhoto photos and some other user files.

It WILL come back up with all user files in place. I'm sure it will. I told it to.

more follows when instal finishes.

Exciting!

It took 43 minutes and all I had to do when it came back up was re-set desktop display, brightness and re-wirelessly connect the mouse. A couple of minutes later it wirelessly found the router, so network works too.

All user files were in place, right where I left them.

I trusted Apple and they didn't let me down.

Hooray!

Followed by a further 25 minutes of installing Software Updates.

Gee this is fun!

> Installation says it will take 43 minutes.

> It took 43 minutes [....]

I don't think I've ever seen an install-time projection come in right on target.