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I was reading the Sticky on up-grading to Leopard. My Macbook Pro came with Tiger. It also came with a Leopard disk which I've already installed. Not sure which I did though. I just inserted the disk and let it do it's thing. Is there a way to know what I did (up-grade or what) And is there a way to determine whether the disk I have is a full version or just an up-grade.
 
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I beleive the default option during instilation is an upgread. as i remember I think you have to actually specify and click a few options to tell it to do a compleatl new instilation
 
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If you did an Archive and Install of Leopard, you will see a Previous System folder on your hard drive.

There won't be much difference between an Upgrade or an Erase and Install except if you look in the Preferences folder in your user account. If you did an Erase and Install, there won't be any junk in there. If you just patched over the upgrade, there'll be plenty of orphaned files.

Another place to look is in your Applications folder. If it isn't only the basic apps and the bundled software, you patched the upgrade over the existing Tiger install you had.

Am not sure what the Upgrade disk version looks like but usually a full install disk is black. A restore disk is grey.
 
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Thanks for the replies... The disk that came with my system is black and I've always had good results from full installs verses an up-grade I just hope at the time I had enough about me to do the right thing...
 

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