[This is an excerpt from Joe Kissell’s “Take Control of Upgrading to Snow Leopard,” now available to help you prepare for your Snow Leopard installation.] With each major release of Mac OS X, Apple ...

In an earlier tutorial, we explained how to clone the Tiger install DVD to a partition on an external FireWire disk. This is a good idea because the DVD is optical media, and optical media can have ...

I have been stymied in my attempts to use the install disks from a 20 inch Imac to install Leopard onto my trusty old 12 inch Ibook G4 1.2 ghz with 768 mb ram and a 160 gb hard drive. The installation ...

I've got a bad habit of losing or scratching up my optical media, which is why one of the first things I do when I buy a new operating system—like Leopard—is copy an image of the disc to my hard drive ...

Discussions boards are filling with reports of odd behavior with the Leopard Installer. I joined that experience yesterday with my first attempt at the upgrade. Since I have some important apps in my ...

Earlier, we published a tutorial explaining how to clone the Tiger installer DVD to an external FireWire drive. In that tutorial, we suggested that while you’re doing this you should also have a ...

It’s been roughly 72 hours since Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard was released. Many (if not most) users are reporting no problems installing or using Leopard. Unfortunately, a significant number of others are ...

I tried to install Snow Leopard last night onto my Mac Mini, but it failed with an "Unable to copy support files" message. It's the 1st gen. intel 1.6 GHz Core Duo (32 bit), with 2 GB ram. Snow ...

I've got my hot little hands on my copy of Leopard, and I'm about to install it. What better way to spend a rainy Friday night in Philadelphia than installing a new OS and liveblogging it? Before I ...

Mac OS X 10.7, better known as Lion, is an impressive update to the Mac operating system. In addition to its many important features, Apple finally removed one of my longest-running pet peeves and now ...

Most of us face the prospect of upgrading our operating systems with a mixture of excitement and dread. True, a new OS brings cool new ways to work. But that doesn’t change the fact that when you ...

Happy Leopard Day! Reader Zach wrote in asking us how to perform a "clean install" of Leopard and the best way to back-up programs/settings. Let's take a look. Before doing anything, make sure you ...