[hillstones]

Leopard installed just fine on my 250 GB drive. Don't know what you are talking about.
Archive and Install is the best way to go. Saves a lot of troubleshooting later.

[pubb]

My archive & install went without a hitch. I left it alone and came back every 10-20 minutes to check the progress. At the very end, I saw the "about one minute" for ten minutes or so. Checking the install log however, reassured me that the install didn't hang. The computer was simply busy migrating the old user folders.
After the install however, I got a blue screen for about a minute and began to worry, but everything cleared up quickly.
Your mileage may vary. I don't install any apps that modify user interface components (e.g. change appearance of dock or finder) and I tend to mull over the installation of apps that insert themselves in the system preferences.
Pubb

[mbcoats]

It's ALMOST a relief to hear that others are having a problem with Leopard refusing to install, or even mount! My iMac G5PPC couldn't get it past the first window -- as soon I clicked to restart and install, I got the "gobbling" noise from the drive, and eventually, big graphic showing me how to change the batteries in my mouse. They didn't need changing, but I complied anyway, and it didn't help. At all. I let it keep going for 20 minutes, switching from a blank blue screen to a blank gray one and back again, until it went to a black screen and stayed that way -- which is when I bailed out. My drive works fine with other CDs and DVDs, so that's not it. The Apple people walked me through some tests, but none worked. They are sending me a new install disk, but now I'm just not so sure. I really want to know what's wrong -- more to the point, I want Apple to figure out what's wrong and FIX it! I want Leopard!

[2B_Bob]

I'm finally getting around to getting Leopard and a backup drive to go along with Time Machine. Right now my neophyte self would like to know, if I use the archive & install option, can I delete those old archives after I've satisfied myself that the upgrade was successful?

[octane28]

I have a powermac G5 1.8 , single processor, computer. I found 2 300 Gb HDs at Best-buy for $60 dollars apiece. And I want to install Leopard on these 2 HDs. Should I just install these into the 2 empty drive bays. And just go ahead with the normal clean and install option? Or is there a better option, for the extra storage?

[voltima]

I have a G4 desktop with 867 mhz and 512 ram. I am currently running OSX 10.3. If I buy the Leopard DVD for installation, am I going to need to install OSX 10.1 first? Can I erase and clean install only from the Leopard DVD?
Also, this mac does not have a DVD (I will have to install one). I have read that the Matsushita drive has caused some problems for folks attempting to install Leopard (discs not showing up). Can you recommend another type of internal DVD that I might avoid that with?
Thanx in advance....