[Macpartners] Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update

[Patrick McNeal]

Yesterday, Apple released the Mac OS X 10.5.2 update.  IS&T continues  
to recommend that users wait to move to Leopard on production  
machines, but early adopters and those that have received new hardware  
with Leopard pre-installed may find this information useful.

With any operating system update, you should be careful. Apple does  
their best to test each update before making them public, but there's  
always the chance problems still might occur.  To help make the  
process go as smoothly as possible, we suggest the following:

* Have a current backup of all all of your data.

* Test the upgrade on a non-production machine before installing it on  
production hardware.

* Before upgrading, run the "Verify Drive" option in Disk Utility.

* Allow the installation process to complete, uninterrupted.  Laptop  
users should plug their machine in before doing the upgrade.

* After the upgrade, run the "Repair Permissions" option in Disk  
Utility to fix any permissions issues that might have been caused the  
by the installer.

More information about this update can be found here:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307109
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307430

For more information on the Leopard release at MIT, please see the  
project notebook at:

http://mit.edu/swrt/releases/macosx/

--Patrick

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Patrick McNeal
Macintosh Platform Coordinator - Software Release Team
Client Support Services, Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
N42-250E
Cambridge, MA 02139
+1 617 253-0196
mcneal at mit.edu