[Ham-Mac] Upgrade to Tiger

[John E Bastin]

On Sep 12, 2005, at 12:11 AM, kd5nwa wrote:


> I'm about to start a upgrade to Tiger, well actually I' thinking of  
> doing a clean install.
>
> I have a G4 1 GHz unit with a 2 GHz Powerlogix CPU and 1 Gig of  
> ram, I'm running 10.3.9 right now.
>
> Any words of advice? Any problems encountered? I want to start  
> using the Mac for ham applications after the upgrade, any problems  
> with Ham software?
>

I've been running Tiger since the day it was released, no major  
problems encountered. I just did an Archive & Install when I  
upgraded, thereby not losing all my user and network settings.

I haven't used much ham software on the Mac other than a FileMaker  
database of my own construction for logging, record keeping and  
QSLing, and telnetting directly to Internet packet clusters in Terminal.


>
> Will classic still work? Someone told me it wasn't supported  
> anymore. I still have a few classic applications I would rather not  
> do without.
>

Classic runs fine in Tiger. If you do a clean install, as you  
indicate, be aware that Classic does NOT install by default. You have  
to use the "Optional Installs" package on the Tiger DVD to install  
the Classic UI after you install Mac OS X 10.4.


>
> Thanks
>

No problem.


> -- 
> Cecil
> KD5NWA
> <www.qrpradio.com>
>

John E Bastin, K8AJS
jbastin at sssnet.com
http://www.qsl.net/k8ajs/