Monday, November 5, 2007

Leopard upgrade

Though the machine was bought after October 26 (the date Leopard's sales started), I had to resort to "update" by the Mac OS X Leopard Upgrade DVD. Here are my steps:

1. Boot from Upgrade DVD and install Leopard afresh
I originally made 3 partitions, one is boot partition, one is for data, and the last one is for Windows. But Bootcamp refused to use these partitions.. and Disk utility could not remove the extra partitions, so I did this:
diskutil mergePartitions HFS+ disk0s3 disk0s5

to merge boot partition (disk0s3) with disk0s4 and disk0s5. Then Bootcamp is satisfied.

2. Use MBP bundled DVD and install bundled application
Upgrade DVD does not come with iLife, since iLife came not with Tiger but bundled with

3. Install Windows Vista Ultimate via Bootcamp.

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