Panther upgrade
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- phist
have the panther discs, now running jaguar. thinkin of doing it this week. any tips on how it should be done? should i expect any speed bumps? please share. thanks.
- kpl0
personally, I'd wait until 10.3.2 is released before doing it unless you are that impatient.
and from my limited experience, installing it on a blank drive or partition yields better performance than upgrading an existing one.
yup, there is a speed boost, especially for slower computers.
- CyBrainX0
the finder is faster, especially in Photoshop and especially, especially in Photoshop CS.
Do a custom install so you can cut out all the languages you don't need and cut out about an hour installing time.
- Chip0
upgraded yesterday in the office on 3 machines. Seems fine.
As CyBrainX said, its advisable to only install the languages you need, this really cuts down on the installation time.
It'll take about 30-40 minutes all in and if you wont have to change any settings or anything. Pretty sweet upgrade.
My only issue is that the monitor profile seems to reset to default sometimes after restarting now.
Other than that, fine !
Go for it !!! :)
- Rodimus790
did they resolve that issue with Panther wiping the drives of connected devices?
- ungraph0
from what I know it is just recommended that you upgrade the firmware on you external drive if it is an 800.
I think 10.3.1 helps the issue but I don't know.
I stronly recommend a full clean install of Panther. I upgraded from Jaguar and it was a mess. Clean install is the way to go.
- rasko40
yeah disconnect any firewire 800 frives you may have connected, run software update to ensure you have 10.3.1 which solves the problem... all running smooth for me except no suitcase :(
install took 10 mins but on a brand new machine.
- Momentum0
i'm still running a g4 400 mhz 512 mb old school system....would you recommend me going to panther??
thanks
- one2meny0
upgrade, definitely.
As for how, if you can do a clean install, do one. If you cannot then do an archive and install. Those are the best options. Also, customize the install so you don't have languages and printers you do not need.
- err0
momentum
Upgrade you will have a new machine! Ive seen panther revive some old macs.
- err0
Wait. If you install panther and uncheck all the languages, you wont get all those unneeded fonts?
- CyBrainX0
It's pretty stable, but I freeze a few times a week. In Jaguar I crashed once in about 5 months.
- brundlefly0
I have rebooted 3times since the install, seems much the same
- Kernit0
...and expose is just amazing, especially when you set it up with hot corner activation. but no problems with the install for me. installed over jaguar, deleted all the old versions of tinkertool et al, no problems since. it's just amazing to use on my 400mhz tibook with 384megs RAM, ad a real speed boost to boot!
- zaven0
what about installing panther on a powerbook G3 firewire 400Mhz 384Ram?
- rson0
I've searched for this problem but was unable to find anything. When I'm MAC oX 3...I can not post nor reply to anything on NT.
Has this been a problem for anybody else?
P.S. I'm on a PC now.
- phist0
nice. thanks to you all.