[Ham-Mac] OT: upgrading to Lion
Dennis Griffin
eagleeyedennis at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 10 10:28:23 EST 2011
Hi Stephen,
The following should be the most direct way of doing this. Do final Time Machine b/u, erase main partition on mini using Disk Utility from your MB (using Firewire Target Disk mode to mount mini HD), install Lion on mini from thumb drive image, then run Migration Assistant under Lion on mini to restore from Time Machine.
73 de Dennis KD7CAC
Scottsdale, AZ
On Dec 10, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Stephen Prior wrote:
> Apologies for the OT nature of this posting.
>
> I have a macbook running Lion happily and now would like to upgrade my
> (Intel) Mac Mini from Snow Leopard. I would really like to strip everything
> off the Mac Mini and then do a fresh install of Lion, which I have saved on
> a memory stick. I have an up-to-date backup in Time Machine, and could also
> completely copy all of the files to another external 2TB drive. I also have
> Windows XP running in Bootcamp and would prefer not to have to go through
> all of that installation again although I imagine that since it is in a
> separate partition that it will remain untouched. My itunes and iphoto
> collections are on a separate USB hard drive. I would back all of these up
> to DVD-rom first.
>
> That's the background, my query is this; can I use what is stored in Time
> Machine to restore the applications? Also, is there anything I've not
> thought about? I have been looking through the various forums but haven't
> found an answer that satisfies me, hence asking here, because I know that I
> have an intelligent audience!
>
> Thanks and 73,
>
> Stephen G4SJP
>
>
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