From: Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...Recent
case, I said yes to yet another Tiger OS update and I was given 2
choices after it came down: restart now or shut down!!!! I am still
miffed about this. Is the process so alzeimic that it can't let one
continue (especially on dial up) and it does its new refurbishing
nex time there is a startup?
System upgrades involve many changes to system software, drivers,
etc, some changes are made immediately, some won't take place until
after a restart. It's a dangerous state to run a computer in.
That said, you can just ignore the jumping icon, move the notice out
of the way and continue working, if that is such a big deal.
Ah yes! This is X after all, never thought of that. I am still
thinking a dialog box _has_ to be answered!
...
Where is the update (obtained auto thru the updater?) if you ever
need it later to rebuild the OS from the original Tiger disk?
....
You can also tell Software Update to save the downloaded updates, I
forget where it puts them, perhaps the Library/Receipts folder.
It keeps a record of which updates it has made and yes, in the
location you mention, there are .pkg file that seem to correspond to
the updates I have made. But the file sizes of these are relatively
small like "MacOSXUpdate10.4.4Patch.pkg" at 2.4MB whereas the
corresponding update was actually said to be 28MB or so. Perhaps this
is a compressed version? But how come it took so long to download?
Maybe the time was spent not just downloading it but ferretting about
in my QS on line and seeing what it needed to do, doing some of it
and preparing for doing more etc on restart. Why bother to say it was
a more daunting 28MB then? (It takes no time at all to decompress
stuff on Macs). Anyway, it is interesting but I can live without
knowing I guess...
I realise it gets complicated because there is update after update
and you will need them all... Is there some rational way to do all
this and keep "them"? Or should one keep (of course) the original
Tiger DVD and just download the latest update when you need to re-
establish the OS?
Since Apple rolls all the previous upgrades into any given combo
update, this is generally the quickest route. Install from the DVD,
then run software update or get the latest combo update, plus any
released since that combo was released. Software Update will get the
appropriate combo updater, it won't, for example, download 10.4.1,
then 10.4.2, etc, it'll go right from 10.4 to 10.4.4.
Since you can always re-install the latest combo update on your
system, it's long been a useful trick to re-apply the latest combo
updater in case of weird software issues, at least since the OS 7
days...
Yes, thanks. I need these soothing reminders. Seriously. I got
spooked by the X freeze after restart on the last update because I
lack experience to ferret about in X and solve bad looking probs.
I am getting more and more fed up with dial up and probably time for
me to go ADSL. Updates for off line use should be easier to get then.
David Elmo
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