Upgrading to OS X Leopard

[JediMaster445]

I am currently running Tiger, and have Office for Mac 2004 on my mac.
I want to upgrade to leopard, and I wish to inquire if my doing a
"Erase and Install" of OS X 10.5 Leopard will result in my losing of
my Office for Mac from my hard disk. I wish to inquire if installing
Office for Mac on the same Mac after the upgrade will use a new CD
key, or if the previous CD key used on the Mac before upgrading OS X.
I want to upgrade my computer quickly, and want to have this enquiry
answered quickly, so I would appreciate a quick reply.

Thanks.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I am currently running Tiger, and have Office for Mac 2004 on my mac.
I want to upgrade to leopard, and I wish to inquire if my doing a
"Erase and Install" of OS X 10.5 Leopard will result in my losing of
my Office for Mac from my hard disk. I wish to inquire if installing
Office for Mac on the same Mac after the upgrade will use a new CD
key, or if the previous CD key used on the Mac before upgrading OS X.
I want to upgrade my computer quickly, and want to have this enquiry
answered quickly, so I would appreciate a quick reply.

If you do an Erase and Install, everything on your HD will be erased, so
yes, you will lose Office.

You can use the CD key an unlimited number of times - unlike with
Windows Activation. The only restriction is on using the same key on
more than one machine (at the same time).

 

[Mr. Strat]

I am currently running Tiger, and have Office for Mac 2004 on my mac.
I want to upgrade to leopard, and I wish to inquire if my doing a
"Erase and Install" of OS X 10.5 Leopard will result in my losing of
my Office for Mac from my hard disk. I wish to inquire if installing
Office for Mac on the same Mac after the upgrade will use a new CD
key, or if the previous CD key used on the Mac before upgrading OS X.
I want to upgrade my computer quickly, and want to have this enquiry
answered quickly, so I would appreciate a quick reply.

What does the word "erase" mean to you? DOH!

 

[Elliott Roper]

I am currently running Tiger, and have Office for Mac 2004 on my mac.
I want to upgrade to leopard, and I wish to inquire if my doing a
"Erase and Install" of OS X 10.5 Leopard will result in my losing of
my Office for Mac from my hard disk. I wish to inquire if installing
Office for Mac on the same Mac after the upgrade will use a new CD
key, or if the previous CD key used on the Mac before upgrading OS X.
I want to upgrade my computer quickly, and want to have this enquiry
answered quickly, so I would appreciate a quick reply.

Fastest way is to do an "upgrade" install.
If you are really in a hurry, skip the DVD checking phase at the
beginning.
Everything should come back just as it was in Tiger.
If something goes wrong you are up the creek without a paddle.

I have just done upgrades on three machines without any problem. But I
did have good backups before I started.

 

[John McGhie]

You know something? This group is here to help people who don't know what
to do.

So it would follow that heaping scorn on the people who come here for help,
just because they do not know something, would be a tad self-defeating, no?

Then again, if you couldn't even work THAT out for yourself, I guess I
shouldn't be scornful to you, now should I?

So I won't say it.

But can you guess what I'm thinking?


On 2/11/07 2:36 AM, in article 011120071006455469%[email protected],

I am currently running Tiger, and have Office for Mac 2004 on my mac.
I want to upgrade to leopard, and I wish to inquire if my doing a
"Erase and Install" of OS X 10.5 Leopard will result in my losing of
my Office for Mac from my hard disk. I wish to inquire if installing
Office for Mac on the same Mac after the upgrade will use a new CD
key, or if the previous CD key used on the Mac before upgrading OS X.
I want to upgrade my computer quickly, and want to have this enquiry
answered quickly, so I would appreciate a quick reply.

What does the word "erase" mean to you? DOH!

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[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi JediMaster,

Leopard offers several different upgrade mechanisms.

Erase and install wipes everything from your hard drive, then installs
Leopard MacOSX. I'd only do this if I thought I had a hopeless hard drive
that needed a fresh start from scratch.

Upgrade and install is fast and easy.

Archive and install does the same, but keeps a copy of your old system for
the cautious types who want to compare everything.

Another option is to create a disc image of the Tiger machine and save it to
an external hard drive. Then do an erase and install, and when the installer
asks you can restore all your files and applications from the disc image.
This is more complicated but can save a problem hard drive's files and
applications.

I always run DiskWarrior before doing Leopard installs.

You will find that some applications will need to be updated to run in
Leopard. I would go through my applications before doing the Leopard update
and make sure I have the latest versions of each (especially Adobe, any
haxies and Parallels products),

-Jim

I am currently running Tiger, and have Office for Mac 2004 on my mac.
I want to upgrade to leopard, and I wish to inquire if my doing a
"Erase and Install" of OS X 10.5 Leopard will result in my losing of
my Office for Mac from my hard disk. I wish to inquire if installing
Office for Mac on the same Mac after the upgrade will use a new CD
key, or if the previous CD key used on the Mac before upgrading OS X.
I want to upgrade my computer quickly, and want to have this enquiry
answered quickly, so I would appreciate a quick reply.

Thanks.

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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