Installing Leopard

OS upgrades become incredibly difficult when one has a largely non-functional optical drive.

 

Things probably wouldn’t have been half so bad if I hadn’t managed to hose the Tiger install before getting Leopard to work.

 

In the end, my process looked like:

1) hook up internal DVD drive via external case

2) copy important files (applications & user settings) from internal drive to external backup via Terminal & Disk Utility

3) erase and install

4) pull information from backup

Done