Unable to Preserve Users & Network Settings

I am trying to go back to Tiger from Leopard on my iMac G4 (17" 1 GHz). However, when I choose Archive and Install, the option to Preserve Users & Network settings is dimmed out and I cannot select it. First time I have encountered this. Any ideas as to why I cannot preserve the users and network settings?

Have a read of this.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1858697&tstart=1

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How to do a Clean Install (Don't preserve users and network settings)

I'd like to make a clean install of Snow Leopard -- but NOT erasing the whole drive and NOT migrating/preserving my users and network settings.
I have a bunch of applications and huge data sets (about 40G) on the boot drive that I don't want to go through the trouble of reinstalling or backing up, and that do not install Application Support folders and the like. I'd like to keep them, as well as migrate files like fonts and preferences over manually. Thus I don't want to format in disk utility and install.
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Let me clarify.
Snow Leopard does an Archive and Install, BUT it PRESERVES Users and Settings. The default install "upgrades in place".
I have been having all sorts of weird crashes and hangs on my Leopard install and i want a fresh, not upgraded install.
I WANT to keep my old Leopard system so I can manually transfer over fonts, files, and applications.
I WANT an upgrade that DOES NOT preserve Preferences, Application Settings, extensions, etc. etc. etc.
But, I do NOT want to have to completely format and install, because that would involve burning approximately 60G of files and applications to DVD-Rs and copying them back.
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Unable to check "Preserve Users and Network Settings" checkbox

I may need to Archive and Install but I'm unable to select the "Preserve Users and Network Settings" checkbox when selecting Archive and Install. It's simply greyed out.
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Alan,
Try repairing disk and repairing permissions first. Then try the Archive and Install option again.
If that doesn't work you can always use a firewire drive and with carbon copy cloner, clone the drive. Then do a clean install and with the migration wizard import the users and network settings back. If you don't have firewire drive you can just do the Archive and Install without checking the "Preserver Users.." option. Your old users will still be in the "/Previous System/Users" folder.
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Cannot select Preserve Users and Network Settings

I am trying to do an Archive and Install but want to save my user settings but I cannot select "Preserve Users and Network Settings" as it is grayed out and unelectable. The question is, why?

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So now I want to install Tiger on it, but when I get to the options installation window and click on the 'Archive and Install' button, the option to also 'preserve users and network settings' remains grayed out. I can't select it. Why so? I want to preserve the settings when I install Tiger.

zanzen wrote:
I have a Quicksilver with Leopard installed. I've learned that normally you can't install Leopard on this computer because the processor (733 mhz) is too slow. It works, but I've found that it does indeed run poorly.(The hard drive was transferred from another computer, with Leopard already installed.)
So now I want to install Tiger on it, but when I get to the options installation window and click on the 'Archive and Install' button, the option to also 'preserve users and network settings' remains grayed out. I can't select it. Why so?
because tiger installer doesn't know how to deal with leopard files as leopard was released after Tiger. downgraded like this is not recommended by apple.
I want to preserve the settings when I install Tiger.
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If I do an Archive & Install of my OS with this option off, will it keep my Users folder, or also erase it?
And would it do anything to it if I put the contents of my home folder in a new directory somewhere not in the Users folder?
Because I'd like to reset the network settings, but I'd like to keep my documents. Apple KBase tells that when this option is off, a backup is needed of your Users reason, but I don't see why if the documents are kept. Otherwise, I don't get why it's named "Archive" and Install, as nothing would be archived.

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