Upgrade Notes to OS X 10.6

Upgrading to OS X 10.6 was one of the more difficult upgrades I've done on the mac. I have a macbook air so it was time to dig out my portable DVD player that is nearly useless since it consumes the sole port on the device. Pull it out from my laptop back and realize that the USB connector has been twisted to death and will only power up but not read the drive. Go to borrow one from the office next door and the shielding on that one is nearly toast as well. Fortunately, it works so the DVD finally gets recognized.

Here are my upgrade Notes:

1. Decrypted Internal HD from PGP Disk
2. Ran Mac PGP Uninstall
3. Clicked Install of OS X 10.6 DVD; was told cannot install OS X to Macintosh HD because it was not a bootable partition.
4. Saw Resize hint on macrumors [link]; Tried resizing and failed.
5. Tried Disk Utility in 10.5 and did repair permissions; no real errors.
6. Booted off 10.6 DVD and ran Disk Utility. Found errors and corrected. I probably should have clean booted off disk to start with.
7. Booted into 10.5 off HD; Ran 10.6 Upgrade DVD again; Still Failed
8. Resized Partition down 5G
9. Ran installer again. Success!
10. Resized Drive back in 10.6
11. Encrypted using FileVault while waiting for new PGP release.
    

Net Result: 7G more on my disk! On my MacBook Air, that's 100% more free space.