10.6.8 Update, being very cautious.

Having digested a lot of excellent advice here and after reading about the mess some people have got into, have decided this time to download and install 10.6.8 on its own partition on external hard drive. It's quite convenient because this drive is connected all the time anyway 'cos it's got a Time Machine partition on it. Was very careful, used the Combo, repaired Permissions and Disk, and just about everything else. The most obvious things to check were that the printer and scanner were still working normally and they are. Will now run it like this for some time to see if anything is 'broken'. No hurry. Easy to escape back to 10.6.7 if necessary.

Crickerternot,
On a different iMac than the one that had the 10.6.8 update crash, before I ran the update I made sure to use the Disk Utility to repair permissions and the 10.6.7 partition. Then, launching only the Installer (I even turned off AirPort and Bluetooth), the update combo (same as code as what crashed on a much newer iMac) ran flawlessly.
How did your experience with the 10.6.8 update go?

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