Leopard How-to: Clean install

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Happy Leopard Day! Reader Zach wrote in asking us how to perform a “clean install” of Leopard and the best way to back-up programs/settings. Let’s take a look. Before doing anything, compose certain you read Mat’s Guide to preparing for Leopard - there are some great tips about backing-up and preserving your program input.

After backing up your system, insert your shiny OS X 10.5 DVD

into your Mac and restart the computer, holding down C, so that the Mac boots off of the DVD-ROM.

After a few moments, you will be presented with a Leopard installation screen and presented with a number of options (some options may not seem on all systems, depending on model, previous OS version, etc.).

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Original post by Christina Warren