Aidan Hadley Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 After doing a clean install of Leopard on my MacBook Pro I quickly discovered all of the bugs and the applications that simply are not yet ready to run on 10.5 (like Unison and Acquisition). So I decided to go back and reformat the drive for both Leopard and Tiger. Using Disk Utility on the Leopard Preview disc I partitioned the 120GB hard drive of my MBP into two parts (allowing just 12GB for Leopard). I reinstalled 10.5 on one partition and then reinstalled 10.4.7 on the other. So now I have two hard drive icons on my desktop and can restart from either. I'll use Tiger for day to day stuff and will re-start into Leopard to play with its features. It was very easy to do. Didn't require Boot Camp or anything else. Just a matter of time and patience in doing the installs and then reconfiguring everything. I thought I'd share as this Developer's build of 10.5 is buggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havoc234 Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 yeah...... I think I'm gonna hold out on installing, doesnt seem like there is anything worth checking out, I mean there is nothing for now that I couldn't just read about..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Marvin Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 I have Tiger on a 63gb Partition and Leopard on a 11gb on my Powerbook. I let Leopard share all of Tiger's apps and documents and it runs fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaffa Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 I'm using leopard as my main OS on my macbook. seems fine here Oh, except for the non-working headphone jack, the mail.app crashing every few days, and the fact that ichat backdrops dont work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Ok, dumb question (since I haven't gotten my Macbook yet), but when a new version of Leopard comes out, it won't be any big deal to install it to the smaller partition where the old version was, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masna Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Ok, dumb question (since I haven't gotten my Macbook yet), but when a new version of Leopard comes out, it won't be any big deal to install it to the smaller partition where the old version was, right? Shouldn't be, but... When you say new version of Leopard, you mean... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Thanks, masna. I was talking about updated developer builds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masna Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Thanks, masna. I was talking about updated developer builds. Oh, ok. Yeah, updating is a breeze with Mac. Everything (save popping the disc in and booting) is done for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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