<Sigh>

Either my Google-Fu is nearly broken (and it very well might be based on my recent Buffalo WiFi issues) and/or Apple's upgrade instructions are nearly worthless. Or both.

So I upgraded a 13" MBP from 10.6.8 (SL) to Lion today. Then I went looking for the Lion Server (server.app) so that I could install Lion on my Mac Mini running SLS. It's gone.

???

<Read various Apple docs about how to upgrade to Mavericks Server...>

None of which help.

Guess what? The instructions about being required to upgrade to Lion before you can upgrade to Mavericks are wrong. You can go directly from 10.6.8 to Mavericks (10.9) now. Once you have Mavericks, you can get the Server add-on for $20 from the App Store.

So now I'm downloading the 5+ GB Mavericks package...

At least nothing seems to have broken on the MBP upgrade...

So Ashton, you're smart in having someone do the upgrade for you, but it may be much easier than I first thought!

Cheers,
Scott.
(Who recognizes that he's still ahead of where he would be with Winders.)

Post #388,005 by Another Scott 3/27/14 11:34:00 PM Reply	<Sigh> Either my Google-Fu is nearly broken (and it very well might be based on my recent Buffalo WiFi issues) and/or Apple's upgrade instructions are nearly worthless. Or both. So I upgraded a 13" MBP from 10.6.8 (SL) to Lion today. Then I went looking for the Lion Server (server.app) so that I could install Lion on my Mac Mini running SLS. It's gone. ??? <Read various Apple docs about how to upgrade to Mavericks Server...> None of which help. Guess what? The instructions about being required to upgrade to Lion before you can upgrade to Mavericks are wrong. You can go directly from 10.6.8 to Mavericks (10.9) now. Once you have Mavericks, you can get the Server add-on for $20 from the App Store. So now I'm downloading the 5+ GB Mavericks package... At least nothing seems to have broken on the MBP upgrade... So Ashton, you're smart in having someone do the upgrade for you, but it may be much easier than I first thought! Cheers, Scott. (Who recognizes that he's still ahead of where he would be with Winders.)
Post #388,023 by a6l6e6x 3/28/14 8:40:19 PM Reply	I've read 40% of Macs are now on Mavericks. Free is a good thing! :) Alex ÂThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.Â -- Isaac Asimov
Post #388,025 by Another Scott 3/28/14 9:17:17 PM Reply	Indeed! Steve must be spinning in his grave though. ;-) (My recollection is that when he came back to Apple, apparently one of his gripes was that OS upgrades were being given away and not being sold.) Cheers, Scott.

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