Official Mac Tech Support Thread.

[1goodI]

Originally Posted by Grapist

Is your macbook intel based? If you are running Tiger it could be power pc based, then Leopard is as high as you go. It doesn't come with iwork, also, you are supposed to have a legit copy of Leopard in order to get Snow leopard but I think I have heard that the SL install doesn't really check if you do and will install anyway.

My macbook pro is intel based.

[Grapist]

Originally Posted by 1goodI

My macbook pro is intel based.

As long as you have at least 1G of Ram, you should be able to install SL.

[1goodI]

How can I backup everything on my macbook pro running tiger? I'm about to upgrade to SL. I need a backup of everything. Apple wants you to buy everything and put it all on their server. I got all that music fair and square and I ain't sharing.

[CyVaquero]

Buy a USB/Firewire drive of at least the same size as your HD and use Carbon Copy Cloner (free - Carbon Copy Cloner - Home) or SuperDuper! (costs) to image your whole drive over. You can then boot off that drive if your system drive dies.

I use SuperDuper! and have it run an image of my Tb drive twice a day.

*edit - you may not be able to boot off it from USB on Tiger or it might depend on how old the Mac is.

[naggy]

Originally Posted by 1goodI

How can I backup everything on my macbook pro running tiger? I'm about to upgrade to SL. I need a backup of everything. Apple wants you to buy everything and put it all on their server. I got all that music fair and square and I ain't sharing.

iv got a WD My Passport Essential 320GB. cost 70GBP. i then used time machine. what you can do is back it up then empty onto your OS then set u a time machine back up

[CyVaquero]

Time machine works too - that major difference is that Time Machine uses archiving and is not bootable. With the solutions I put up that drive can be booted from or even plugged into another Mac and access the files.

[naggy]

i didnt think tiger had time machine

[CyVaquero]

Originally Posted by naggy

i didnt think tiger had time machine

That's true too. Didn't even think about that.

[naggy]

Got my own little issue now.
When i run my mbp on bootcamp (WIndows 7 x64) i can connect to the internet fine. When i then transfere back to SL i cannot connect to the net. I am going through a router that is connected to another then a modem (long story). my housemates on windows connect fine through the other router that is connected directly to the modem and i connect fine when on mine with windows 7. I can connect to the router but not the net, and when i try to access the router it keeps restarting itself. What could be causing this issue?

[naggy]

Got my own little issue now.
When i run my mbp on bootcamp (WIndows 7 x64) i can connect to the internet fine. When i then transfere back to SL i cannot connect to the net. I am going through a router that is connected to another then a modem (long story). my housemates on windows connect fine through the other router that is connected directly to the modem and i connect fine when on mine with windows 7. I can connect to the router but not the net, and when i try to access the router it keeps restarting itself. What could be causing this issue?