Thinking about Panther

[Bbob]

Doggone it, I goy my felines mixed up. In a previous post I misspoke, as the politicians say. The info is really about Panther, not Jaguar.

Randy Singer has a new web site dealing with OS X 3 Panther problems. If you are thinkng about installing Panther, or if you have problems, this is a really good site to visit. He gives good advice and working solutions to many problems.
http://www.macattorney.com/panther.html

He also has a site for earlier OS versions at http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html

Bbob with a Cube

[Gary S]

Thanks Bob.

Randy's sites are good.

[taliesin]

Yes, a good intro indeed!
Randy's put up the following warning big and bold:

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If you have an external hard drive that you need to continue using, I recommend that you DO NOT update to Panther at this time!

Firewire drive worries -- including massive and irrecuperable data loss -- have featured on MacFixit's trouble-shooting front page for about a week now, while the thread on them at Apple's own forums is hundreds of posts long.
But I see La Cie's own site, for instance, is coming out with downloadable updates on a regular basis -- another one this morning.
As far as I can tell, having ploughed through a great deal of this stuff ahead of an imminent upgrade, just as long as you don't have your external firewire drive plugged in during installation or during any booting-up processes, you come out unscathed.
I'm trying to find another Apple page about all this, but have "mislaid" the bookmark.
Update: only mislaid it because I'm an idiot.
This: Apple's "special message for Firewire users". Last updated yesterday...