Tiger upgrade experience
I’ve been running the final developer seed (8A425) for a few weeks, but today I finally received my retail copy. Here’s how the upgrade went on two machines.
First, I installed on my G4 Minitower (originally 500 MHz, upgraded to 1 GHz with an OWC Mercury Extreme upgrade). This machine was previously running 8A425, which I installed with a clean install and it had few third party extensions installed. On this machine I did an upgrade install. The upgrade went perfectly and I had no problems after the installation.
I wasn’t so lucky with my PowerBook G4, running 8A425 installed via Archive & Install. This was my main work machine and I had several third party extensions such as Sidetrack installed. The first thing I did was completely back up the drive to an external drive. I did an erase install and used the migration manager to copy my old applications & home directory from the backup.
When it finished, all of my data & applications were intact and all of the settings were unchanged. However, I noticed that many applications would crash immediately when launched. Looking at the crash reporter logs, I saw that the crash was always occurring in the graphic accellerator framework. I had previously installed ATI’s January driver upgrade. Once I replaced that with ATI’s current drivers, the crashes stopped and everything worked again.
