Re: 10.5.8 Update Stuck in "Configuring Installation" for 12 Hours
> So that's it, apparently a corrupt file(s), that OSX apparently verified, > but it wasn't sound. All that cost me way too much of my life, but now I > get to reap the glory of solving my problem, and hopefully saving others > from the same fate.So if this works for you, then that validates this > as SOLVED! Great news! There are a few tell-tale files that can cause a great deal of hair-pulling. I recently bought a Core 2 Duo MacMini off of eBay. Came with MacOS X installed, but, alas, no superuser password. Turns out that there is a tell-tale file which, when present, tells MacOS X that a superuser password is to be used. Erase that file and reboot, and then you will be greeted with the entire "first time use" dialog set, including the setting (or not setting) of the machine's superuser password. All my in-house machines have no password, which is my preference as there are no other users. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: 10.5.8 Update Stuck in "Configuring Installation" for 12 Hours
I know this is an Old thread, but I recently ran into the same issues trying to revive an old MacBook Pro 17". I went through a few days of trying every online tip I could google, and finally... FINALLY.. i had a eureka moment after reading a thread about doing it manually from the file downloaded. Of course the manual install didn't work ... so I thought.. "Maybe the download is corrupt???" So like a good Windows user, I tracked down the location of the original downloads in my LIBRARY folder, under UPDATES. I deleted 3 files ( index.plst , MacOSXupdCombo10.5.8.pkg, and MacOSXupdCombo10.5.8.dist) and re downloaded it from the apple Software update thingy ( where you click on the apple in the top left corner). 10 minutes later, re downloaded the update files, clicked on it, and immediately it shot past the 10% ( approx) that it was hung up for DAYS So that's it, apparently a corrupt file(s), that OSX apparently verified, but it wasn't sound. All that cost me way too much of my life, but now I get to reap the glory of solving my problem, and hopefully saving others from the same fate.So if this works for you, then that validates this as SOLVED! On Wednesday, 26 October 2011 09:02:55 UTC-7, tr...@prismnet.com wrote: > > I am trying to update a 1.25 GHz MDD (single G4) from a clean install > of 10.5 to 10.5.8. Perhaps naively, I let Software Update do its > thing and after a couple hours of downloading through our slow DSL > connection, things were chugging along. > > I should note that Software Update was performing five updates total, > including the Mac OSX Combo 10.5.8 update. > > Last night the machine was sitting with a solid light blue screen with > a message box in the center showing almost no progress on the progress > bar and a caption reading, "Configuring Installation" and this morning > it appears to be in exactly the same state. > > I can't seem to bring up the Activity Monitor (or whatever it's > called) with a cmd-opt-esc and there are no menus nor buttons on the > screen. However, I'm hesitant to shut down with the power button. > > Thank you for any helpful or humorous suggestions, > > Jeff Walther > -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: 10.5.8 Update Stuck in "Configuring Installation" for 12 Hours
On Oct 27, 2:12 pm, Kris Tilford wrote: > On Oct 26, 2011, at 11:02 AM, t...@io.com wrote: > > > "Configuring Installation" > > I believe "Configuring Installation" is prior to installation, not > during, so hopefully you're ok. Leopard 10.5 normally updates after > completing most of a Shutdown process, so it's possible some app > stalled the update process. Software Update is smarter than it used to > be, the downloaded software should still be ready to install, and if > you reboot and then Shutdown again it "should" tell you there's > software to install, and start again without needing to download it > all again. Thank you to all who replied. I shut down using the power button. Booted back up, and the machine came up in unadulterated 10.5. No updates applied. I launched Software Update again, but this time there were only four updates instead of five listed. I believe that it managed to install the iTunes update it wanted to, and maybe that's what stalled the rest of the process. This time, instead of letting SU do the update, I chose "Download Only". After that, the Mac OS X Combo Update immediately appeared in the Downloads folder. It must have been stored somewhere from two nights ago attempt, but I searched the machine yesterday (using Find) and wherever it was, it wasn't visible. Anyway, telling SU to download it caused SU to immediately cough up whatever copy it downloaded two nights ago. I ran the installer manually and it worked perfectly. The machine booted into 10.5.8 without problems. However, this whole thing is being driven by a new iPhone, which needs iTunes 10.5 (or something like that, not my iPhone). And when I try to launch the iTunes 10.5 that SU installed, it informs me that it needs QuickTime 7.5 or better to run. But the link on the message leads to a page at Apple's site which just tells me that QuickTime is built into the OS now and will be updated automatically by SU. So which of these updates (10 now that 10.5.8 is installed) that SU wants to install contains the QuickTime update? Maybe the iLife tools update? Or is that Apple page true for later OS's but not for Leopard? Once again, I am pushed to a near-murderous rage by how hard Apple makes it to find a simple thing like older versions of QuickTime updates. A google search turned up a copy of QuickTime 7.7 on a page called Macupdates, so I can get QuickTime. I'm just upset that I can't get it from Apple, as I ought to be able. There should just be an Apple QuickTime page which lists all the versions with download buttons. And, in fact, I found a page like that, and all the download buttons take one to the Apple page which tells you that Quicktime is built into the system now and not a separate download, so none of the links on that page actually works. G. Sigh. But, on the bright side, no matter how idiotic Apple Support is, this MDD is almost configured thanks to the Mac community and despite Apple, I think. Thank you again for the help, and for reading my venting, if you're still reading. :-) Jeff Walther -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: 10.5.8 Update Stuck in "Configuring Installation" for 12 Hours
On Oct 26, 2011, at 11:02 AM, t...@io.com wrote: "Configuring Installation" I believe "Configuring Installation" is prior to installation, not during, so hopefully you're ok. Leopard 10.5 normally updates after completing most of a Shutdown process, so it's possible some app stalled the update process. Software Update is smarter than it used to be, the downloaded software should still be ready to install, and if you reboot and then Shutdown again it "should" tell you there's software to install, and start again without needing to download it all again. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: 10.5.8 Update Stuck in "Configuring Installation" for 12 Hours
On Oct 26, 2011, at 9:02 AM, t...@io.com wrote: I am trying to update a 1.25 GHz MDD (single G4) from a clean install of 10.5 to 10.5.8. Perhaps naively, I let Software Update do its thing and after a couple hours of downloading through our slow DSL connection, things were chugging along. I should note that Software Update was performing five updates total, including the Mac OSX Combo 10.5.8 update. Last night the machine was sitting with a solid light blue screen with a message box in the center showing almost no progress on the progress bar and a caption reading, "Configuring Installation" and this morning it appears to be in exactly the same state. I can't seem to bring up the Activity Monitor (or whatever it's called) with a cmd-opt-esc and there are no menus nor buttons on the screen. However, I'm hesitant to shut down with the power button. Thank you for any helpful or humorous suggestions, Jeff Walther I would power it down and start again, you can't hurt anything, I assume you have a back up of your original system. And yes IMHO DSL is really slow I hate it when I do upgrade for folks when that's all they have as an internet connection. The Apple updates take hours. Did you format the drive before you began? John Carmonne Yorba Linda CA 92886 From iMac Core Duo 2.0 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: 10.5.8 Update Stuck in "Configuring Installation" for 12 Hours
I'm going to not give you bad advice on this, but just a replay on similarities between our situations. Recently I purchased an mdd g4 dual 1.25(It's awesome, yet underpowered by today's standards) and had 10.4.11 installed. Well I have an iphone 4 and needed 10.5 for the newer iTunes so I could update it. I received my copy of leopard installed and the machine took twenty tries to finally get installed then it went into an infinite loop for the installer and would never boot into leopard. I decided to just turn the computer off( since it was a project) and put it away. One day decided to install slackintosh on this machine so I decided to for gits and shiggles reset the pram and all the other things I've read and restart it. Lo and behold this computer started booting onto Mac os x ( which I was confused since it didn't seem to ever completely finish installing..) and bampf ta daa a brand new fresh install of leopard was staring me in the face. Cool? Totally. How does this relate? The same dang thing happened when I installed updates . So try it or don't, whatever. Sent from my iPhone 4 On Oct 26, 2011, at 11:02 AM, "t...@io.com" wrote: > I am trying to update a 1.25 GHz MDD (single G4) from a clean install > of 10.5 to 10.5.8. Perhaps naively, I let Software Update do its > thing and after a couple hours of downloading through our slow DSL > connection, things were chugging along. > > I should note that Software Update was performing five updates total, > including the Mac OSX Combo 10.5.8 update. > > Last night the machine was sitting with a solid light blue screen with > a message box in the center showing almost no progress on the progress > bar and a caption reading, "Configuring Installation" and this morning > it appears to be in exactly the same state. > > I can't seem to bring up the Activity Monitor (or whatever it's > called) with a cmd-opt-esc and there are no menus nor buttons on the > screen. However, I'm hesitant to shut down with the power button. > > Thank you for any helpful or humorous suggestions, > > Jeff Walther > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: 10.5.8 G4 Won't restart
I started having the about the same problem, however my MDD boot time
was about 5 minutes.
Turns out resetting the PMU fixed shutdown and the slow boot.
I was also having the problem that the system wouldn't wake from sleep
and the main "Firewire 400" stopped working.
Well all is right now.
1. Shut down the platform.
2. Opened the side door.
3. Removed the AC Power Cord.
4. Removed the PRAM battery.
5. Depressed the PMU button and counted to 5.
6. Release the PMU button.
7. Waited 5 minutes.
8. Installed the PRAM battery.
9. Connected the AC Power Cord.
10. Closed the side door.
11. Powered up = took about 1 minute.
12. Firewire 400 - works.
13. Wake from sleep works.
Give it a try.
This is the first time, having a G4 tower that resetting the PMU has
fixed a problem.
I know that when you post a problem one of the first things that a lot
of responders say "RESET PMU"
Well it finally worked.
Cheers
Harry
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On Aug 11, 2:37 pm, Vince Meghrouni wrote:
> When I try to properly shut down or restart my G4 Quicksilver OS
> 10.5.8, the icons leave the screen (the screensaver image - is that
> what you call it? - remains) and the beach ball spins forever.
>
> I can shut it down with the power button and bring it back up.
>
> I zapped the PRAM. I've repaired permissions and run disk repair. The
> disk repair had to make some repairs, which seems a little ominous to
> me.
>
> But it's back to square one. I can't paroperly shut down or restart
> the machine.
>
> Sound familiar to anyone?
>
> Thanks
>
> Vince Meghrouni
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Re: 10.5.8 G4 Won't restart
On 2011/08/11 15:37, Vince Meghrouni so eloquently wrote: When I try to properly shut down or restart my G4 Quicksilver OS 10.5.8, the icons leave the screen (the screensaver image - is that what you call it? - remains) and the beach ball spins forever. I can shut it down with the power button and bring it back up. I zapped the PRAM. I've repaired permissions and run disk repair. The disk repair had to make some repairs, which seems a little ominous to me. But it's back to square one. I can't paroperly shut down or restart the machine. Sound familiar to anyone? I had a similar problem, when I tried to logout Leopard everything would quit, even the dock & menubar, and then it would just hang for as long as my patience would last (overnight once, still had to do a hard shutdown). But I don't recall seeing the SBBOD. Doing a Safe Boot (hold down the shift key after the 'bong' tone) helped a little, but not for very long. Finally I gave up and went back to 10.4. Software needs brought me back to 10.5, but this time I did an Archive & Install, instead of an Upgrade install and I haven't had the problem since. So my question would be, did you install Leopard as an upgrade or as an archive? If it was an upgrade, you might try doing a clean install or an archive & install, backing up your data first of course. Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX5200 Ultra 64MB VRAM 10.4.11 PB G4 15" HR-DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon 9700 128MB VRAM 10.4.11 Mac Pro Mid-2010 2.8 GHz QC 6 GB RAM Radeon HD 5770 1GB VRAM 10.6.7 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: 10.5.8 G4 Won't restart
On Aug 11, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Vince Meghrouni wrote: Sound familiar to anyone? Yes. I've had something similar on my G5 w/10.5.8. It's intermittent, sometimes it shuts down ok, sometimes it stops that a blue screen without any icons, but instead of the beachball I usually have a normal cursor that moves around, but there's nothing to click upon anywhere, and it stays 'stuck' at this stage until I use the Power button to force a shutdown. My guess is that some application is causing this? I suspect Firefox 10.3.19 perhaps? I have my G5 set to verbose startup, and during a normal shutdown I'd see a black screen with shutdown dialog in white, which I never see. When I use the Power button, it does recognize the bad shutdown and resets some parameters, so it seems to me the shutdown is delayed by an application hang most likely, which would also explain the intermittency since I might not have the offending application open during normal shutdowns. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: 10.5.8
At 4:14 PM -0400 8/6/2009, Bill Connelly wrote: >On Aug 6, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Dan wrote: > >> Or... perhaps more likely, as there are other reports of permissions >> issues after installing 10.5.8 (see macfixit, etc)... Apple has >> farked the receipts linkage for this update. Remember please that >> repairing permissions is the ancient fix to an ancient OS X >> 10.0/.1/.2 problem The real solution is to simply not do it. > >After an update of this sort, what about using a Safe Boot to correct >caches, and / or applejack to (sorry) Repair Permissions and do the >rest in auto pilot mode? (refreshing caches, checking other files?) > >Don't do this either? It would depend on what exactly Apple broke. It could just make it worse, on an already affected system. At this point, I would recommend doing *nothing* unless something is *noticeably* broken. Give Apple a chance to fess up etc. ...There is a reason we don't recommend that people install OS updates as soon as they're released. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: 10.5.8
On Aug 6, 2009, at 4:31 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: I do run MacJanitor every month or two when I think about it. Len * Can MacJanitor be safely used on OS X 10.5.7 or .8? Does it still do what it was originally designed to do, if the user's current OS is 10.5x? Stanton * --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: 10.5.8
On Aug 6, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > > > On Aug 6, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Dan wrote: > >> Or... perhaps more likely, as there are other reports of permissions >> issues after installing 10.5.8 (see macfixit, etc)... Apple has >> farked the receipts linkage for this update. Remember please that >> repairing permissions is the ancient fix to an ancient OS X >> 10.0/.1/.2 problem The real solution is to simply not do it. > > After an update of this sort, what about using a Safe Boot to correct > caches, and / or applejack to (sorry) Repair Permissions and do the > rest in auto pilot mode? (refreshing caches, checking other files?) > > Don't do this either? Here is my normal procedure for installing updates like this. Download the version Software Update offers (I forget the order of next 2) enter my admin password click Restart most of the time I walk away for a few minutes if I have anything else to do. Start working once my Mac has restarted. YMMV, but I have yet to have any issue installing an update except for a known issue with beige G3s going to 10.2.8. You frequently had to go to 10.2.6 first, then update to 10.2.8. I do run MacJanitor every month or two when I think about it. Len --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: 10.5.8
On Aug 6, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Dan wrote: > Or... perhaps more likely, as there are other reports of permissions > issues after installing 10.5.8 (see macfixit, etc)... Apple has > farked the receipts linkage for this update. Remember please that > repairing permissions is the ancient fix to an ancient OS X > 10.0/.1/.2 problem The real solution is to simply not do it. After an update of this sort, what about using a Safe Boot to correct caches, and / or applejack to (sorry) Repair Permissions and do the rest in auto pilot mode? (refreshing caches, checking other files?) Don't do this either? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: 10.5.8
At 2:08 AM -0500 8/6/2009, Kris Tilford wrote: [no hardware details supplied] >My Permissions & Ownerships were all correct before the 10.5.8 update. > >After installing 10.5.8, many Extensions were wrong for the 2nd time What was the first time? >during the Leopard updates, and again for the 2nd time Disk Utility >took forever to Repair Permisssions "forever" is relative; it had thousands of changes to make, or at least thought it needed to. *ouch* >Repairing permissions for "OS X RAID" Whoze RAID is this, Apple's or a 3rd party? Does it pass a Verify Disk pass? > Reading permissions database. > Reading the permissions database can take several minutes. > >Permissions differ on "System/Library/Extensions/ACard6280ATA.kext/ >Contents/Info.plist", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -rwxr-xr-x . Very bad. Either you have a HD problem or corrupted receipts files or both. Or... perhaps more likely, as there are other reports of permissions issues after installing 10.5.8 (see macfixit, etc)... Apple has farked the receipts linkage for this update. Remember please that repairing permissions is the ancient fix to an ancient OS X 10.0/.1/.2 problem The real solution is to simply not do it. I'm loathe to read thru the whole 608 KB log you posted... Please take look in your /System/Library/Extensions/ folder to see if it actually changed the permissions. If it did, you might want to manually change them back IF you have any problems. (Having to change all those back might better be left alone for now, if you're not seeing any problems. Wait until Apple fixes this). That giant log... In the future, please zip such items and just post a url for those that want to download 'em. I love to use Dropbox for this type of thing!. Half a MB of email is tuff for some people to pull. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: 10.5.8
On 06/08/2009, at 11:38 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: > > My PPC dual 2.3 G5 was offered a 168 MB download via Software Update, > which I applied and so far so good. > > Apple lists the 10.5.8 stand-alone version at 274 MB, and the Combo > version at 759 MB. > > I suppose this is a sign that Apple has cut loose the PPC Macs early, > and have a special smaller delta version for legacy Macs? Or perhaps > they're giving us a custom, non-universal version, although that seems > unlikely. AFAIK all the Leopard versions are universal, so that likely > means the PPC Macs are getting less of an update than the intel Macs. > I've seen many smaller delta versions in the past, but normally these > are restricted to laptop, iMacs, and Minis with fixed hardware that > have zero upgrade of hardware potential. I can't remember seeing a > smaller update for a full-blown PowerMac. > G'day listers The download for my Al. Intel iMac was 157 MB. It double booted on install, then froze. Turned out that an external drive with a problematic Seagate drive was refusing to mount. Turned it off, and all is fine. I bought 3 1.5 TB seagate drives, all outside the range of serial numbers of faulty drives, but am having hassles with all three. I have returned one of them, and replaced it with a WD drive, and it is working well. Regards Santa --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: 10.5.8
My PPC dual 2.3 G5 was offered a 168 MB download via Software Update, which I applied and so far so good. Apple lists the 10.5.8 stand-alone version at 274 MB, and the Combo version at 759 MB. I suppose this is a sign that Apple has cut loose the PPC Macs early, and have a special smaller delta version for legacy Macs? Or perhaps they're giving us a custom, non-universal version, although that seems unlikely. AFAIK all the Leopard versions are universal, so that likely means the PPC Macs are getting less of an update than the intel Macs. I've seen many smaller delta versions in the past, but normally these are restricted to laptop, iMacs, and Minis with fixed hardware that have zero upgrade of hardware potential. I can't remember seeing a smaller update for a full-blown PowerMac. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: 10.5.8
10.5.8 was successfully applied to my Shuttle SP35P2 system this afternoon. Intel P35 Express MCH chip set with an ICH9R ICH chip set and, in this case, an eVGA 8400GS 512 MB video card. Not wanting to be exposed to yet another flawed update from Apple, I elected to manually download the 10.5.8 Combo Update, and then execute it manually, not automatically. The audio and networking support changed yet again. I have provided the same ALC888 codec dump and Taruga's 1.20 patcher. It must be installed again in order to enable audio on a Hack. I have also provided a patched version of the 10.5.8 IONetworkingFamily kext, with updates to the Marvell gigabit support, only. It must be installed again using kexthelper on a Hack. But, the good news is these appear to be the only issues with 10.5.8. I will be retaining 10.5.7 on my alternate boot partition for several working days, after which I will in all likelihood be cloning the alternate from the main. I will be immediately installing 10.5.8 on my dual 1.0 GHz DA, but obviously without the Shuttle updates. http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a <+> A home for the Hackintosh community. To subscribe to the HQ-A group, send email to hq-a +subscr...@googlegroups.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: 10.5.8
On Aug 5, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Ted Treen wrote: > > Out now. Well the restart took a while, but everything seems fine with iTunes, Mail, Minefield and Transmission. Len --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
