[NPMUG] 2nd Snow Leopard install ... some glitches

[Dave Sevick]

Referring back to the earlier install tonight ... to refresh you:

1.	Made sure my computer was Intel based and was backed up to Time  
Capsule and SuperDuper! volumes successfully.

2.	Went to the Apple Store Shadyside, bought 10.6 Snow Leopard ( SL )  
for $29 + tax ( no User Group discounts allowed )

3.	Placed SL into my trusty Mac mini , 1.66 Ghz Core Duo Intel , 1GB  
RAM , 60GB HD  .... with 37.62 GB free.

4.	Opened the SL installer.  Finder menus became blanked out and only  
the installer accessible.  Expected that ...

5.	Installed  using using "only local printers" option, no extra  
languages or fonts, no X11 ... just 10.6 with no frills.

6.	Surprised to see that no reboot from DVD was needed !  Yeah !   
Unless you chose the new feature that allows a reboot from DVD to  
restore Time Machine or run Disk Utility .... very nice.

7.	Also noted that the startup drive was front and center in the  
installer window when choosing the install volume.  A button allowed  
for showing all connected drives.

8.	This time I chose to show all drives and installed SL on a newly  
reinitialized and external 250GB LaCie portable FireWire/USB drive  
connected via the FireWire 400 ports of my Mac mini to the external  
drive.

9.	Install of 10.6 on the 250GB drive went well and took 35 minutes.    
4.06GB of space was all that was used !!!!!   That is awesome !

10.  However, some odd things.  I see no hard drive mounted .... only  
my MobileMe iDisk ?????  Yes I did enter that information while going  
through the setup on booting.   But no HD showing on first boot ....  
Yikes ......  I was able to go to the Finder/Preferences/and Show  
Disks .....

11.  And the iDisk was doing the sync to the Desktop routine ... I did  
not want that ... so I rushed to the MobileMe prefs  in Apple Menu/ 
System Preferences/MobileMe to stop that function ... the Disk now  
does not appear on the Desktop!

12.	My bookmarks from Safari were set to sync over MobileMe ... that  
works fine with all my bookmarks in place from my laptop running 10.5.8


That's as far as I have gotten tonight with my 2nd install .... little  
glitches.


Dave