Tonight i spell it "APPLE".
They brought back LABELS!!! YAY!!! Why did they go away in the first place? Glad to see them back.
" Below is a set of procedures we recommend. Although it would be nice if there were no 'maintenance' needed when installing an update, our experience is that such maintenance can, and does, make the update process go more smoothly, and in fact has allowed us to avoid many minor problems. To be fair, these procedures will take a bit of time; however, they take less time than dealing with some of the issues they can help you avoid.
1. Before installing Panther, check your startup drive for damage, and repair it if necessary. The easiest way to do this is to boot from the OS X Install CD and run Disk Utility (from the Installer menu). Click the First Aid tab, select your hard drive in the drive/volume list, and click 'Repair Disk.' (If you know how, you can instead start your Mac in single-user mode and use fsck, as this runs the same repair routines.) If you have a third-party disk utility such as Alsoft's DiskWarrior, you can also run that for good measure.
2. Before installing Panther, boot from your hard drive again and repair permissions on your boot volume. To do this, launch Disk Utility (located in /Applications/Utilities), click the First Aid tab, select your hard drive in the drive/volume list, and then click 'Repair Disk Permissions.' (It's important that you do this while booted from your hard drive, rather than from the OS X install CD or another volume, in order to perform the 'correct' repairs.)
3. Install Panther. (See the tip below, 'More info for Panther upgraders,' for more information about installation options.)
4. After installing Panther and then booting from your hard drive (you should now be starting up into Panther!), again repair permissions via Disk Utility as described in Step 2. This will ensure that any system-level permissions that may have been corrupted or changed incorrectly -- installers are notorious for this -- are reset to the correct values.
By following the above procedures, you're not assured a problem-free upgrade, but you'll certainly have a 'healthier' installation, which may help you avoid many of the issues that befall haphazard upgraders."
Friday October 24th 2003 06:34 PM PST
