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1. Excitedly, but nervously going to install Leopard in the next few days. Will I eventually need more than 512 RAM? Anyway, I would like to upgrade this to 1GB. How do I go about this? Do I purchase an external drive?
2. I know I should back-up important files, but will everything be transferred over to Leopard automatically?
3. Does the Archive (from Archive and Install box)stay permanently, or can I delete it eventually? Will I be able to access files in the Archive folder?
Sorry to be so naive!
Many thanks for any help.
Kathy

Ok. Good luck on your endeavor. Here is my advice.
1. Upgrade you G5 to about 2Gbytes of memory. You can buy it very cheaply from Other World Computing at http://www.macsales.com/.
2. If you want to back up your files using TIme Machine I suggest you buy a G-Drive from G-Technology. Their disks come pre-formatted for Mac O/S X. There are many people on this forum that buy their disks from Costco and think they've successfully reformatted their PC formatted disk to support Mac Journaled O/S, and haven't completed the exercise properly, therefore they get into trouble. G-technology is at http://www.g-technology.com/ . Apple's new Time Capsule is another way to backup but it is a wireless connection. Your choice, either Time Machine or Time Capsule.
3. Archive and install or Erase and install are/is the only way "safe" to upgrade to Leopard. Many people on this forum have gotten themselves into severe trouble by merely doing the "upgrade". A&I will leave an archive file on your disk that you may eventually delete. I don't know how to access this file but it should be straightforward by answering some "restore" questions.
4. If you do the A&I or the E&I you may have to reinstall your printer drivers. I am not sure what your printer is, therefore, I cannot say if it comes in Leopard. However, many many drivers are included. HP is in the process of upgrading all their drivers and software to 10.5.
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