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Hey all. I've been doing a lot of reading trying to nail down the best way to make the transition from 10.6.4 to 10.9 and my head is swimming. I've read some good articles but also gotten a decent amount of conflicting information, so I thought I'd ask all of you.
I would imagine I should start off by cloning my current start up drive so that I have something to fall back on in case I botch things horribly. I understand that prior to 10.6.8 you can't boot off of a Time Machine backup so I'd need to clone my current start up drive some other way. Carbon Copy Cloner? Some other method? Does the drive I'm cloning to need to be the same size as the current start up disc?
Once I've got a stable clone, what's my process? I've read that I should upgrade to 10.6.8 first in order to access the App Store and then I can download a free upgrade to 10.9. Is this true? Is that the best way to make the migration? Feel free to just point me toward pre-existing articles that you feel adequately illustrate the steps and the potential pitfalls. My hardware build is one of TonyMac's blessed builds from 2010, specifically build number two here:
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html
Might I encounter any problems upgrading to 10.9 given my hardware configuration? Any hardware I should upgrade in the process? I have upped my RAM to 8 GB since the build was completed, but other than that the specs are identical to the link above.
And, assuming I do screw this up miserably, how exactly would I restore from my cloned drive?
Thanks in advance for any help you're willing to offer. I feel like I've pushed 10.6 as far as it can go. I'm about to be four Revs behind in the OS, and that's not at all where I want to be.
I would imagine I should start off by cloning my current start up drive so that I have something to fall back on in case I botch things horribly. I understand that prior to 10.6.8 you can't boot off of a Time Machine backup so I'd need to clone my current start up drive some other way. Carbon Copy Cloner? Some other method? Does the drive I'm cloning to need to be the same size as the current start up disc?
Once I've got a stable clone, what's my process? I've read that I should upgrade to 10.6.8 first in order to access the App Store and then I can download a free upgrade to 10.9. Is this true? Is that the best way to make the migration? Feel free to just point me toward pre-existing articles that you feel adequately illustrate the steps and the potential pitfalls. My hardware build is one of TonyMac's blessed builds from 2010, specifically build number two here:
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html
Might I encounter any problems upgrading to 10.9 given my hardware configuration? Any hardware I should upgrade in the process? I have upped my RAM to 8 GB since the build was completed, but other than that the specs are identical to the link above.
And, assuming I do screw this up miserably, how exactly would I restore from my cloned drive?
Thanks in advance for any help you're willing to offer. I feel like I've pushed 10.6 as far as it can go. I'm about to be four Revs behind in the OS, and that's not at all where I want to be.