Migrating to 10.3… Install over or Fresh install

[roadshowpro]

So, I’ve given up on my RAID thoughts for my startup drive, and after seeing some of the complaints about trying to recover from an Apple mirrored RAID with one drive failure, I’m fine with that. I can run my backup with cron to the other drive, and all will be well.

SO then, in migrating from 10.2 Server to 10.3 Server, what is the recommended path? Start from scratch? Fresh install of Panther server, and create new users? There are only a few users on the system, so that is possible. or installing 10.3 over the top?

What’s best? Thoughts?

[roadshowpro]

So I cloned my 10.2.8 Server system over to a new drive, rebooted from it to make sure that it ran ok, and then upgraded 10.3 over the top…. Well, the server assistant set everything up, but never quits. So following the advice of the discussions board at info.apple.com, I got around that, and discovered that the Setup Asst. had in fact set everything up, then just hung.

Then I ran Software Update… 10.3.1, and a couple other things. Reboot, no problem. Run Software Update again, and get the Security Update, whatever the date, and after that, I get the grey bootup screen with the apple, then the apple changes to the circle with a slash, and the boot process ends there. I’ve done this twice now with the same result.

Suggestions or thoughts anyone? I have the install cloned to another drive just after the 10.3 CD install, so i have a couple places to work from.

[hetjan]

When I run into problems like this…on client machines though…I boot in single-user mode and run fsck.

After this I run SystemStarter and then do a diskutil repairPermissions / from the console. This usually fixes everything up, although not all problems.

This is, of course, a generic fix and may not fix anything in your case but I hope it helps.

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