From: Kris Tilford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:16:46 -0500
10.3.5 is out today. I used Software Update on several unsupported machines. One thing strange I noticed. Apple Software Downloads lists the 10.3.5 update at 43 MB, and the combo 10.3.5 was listed at 88 MB, but on one or two drives Software Update gave me a 22.9 MB version, while a different drive on the same machine got a 43 MB version? Perhaps I can look in the receipts to see what the difference was, but something seemed amiss. I took some screenshots just to document the two versions I got (both going onto identical 10.3.4 drives).
Perhaps using software update wasn't such a smart idea. It was fine on my Beige, but Software Update seized frozen solid twice on my 7500, once while downloading before anything was installed, and once after installing everything but at only 68% optimized. Luckily there are utilities to finish the optimization. I'd recommend downloading rather than using Software Update if possible, which is what I normally do. Kris
Kris here is a quote from Macfixit,
The Mac OS X 10.3.5 combo updater available through Software Update for Mac OS X 10.3.3 users is approximately 45 MB in size, while the version-to-version upgrade (Mac OS X 10.3.4 --> Mac OS X 10.3.5) is about 23 MB in size. However, the full combo updater (which will bring any version of Mac OS X 10.3.x to Mac OS X 10.3.5) is about 85 MB in size.
I and others have found it best to use the combo updaters rather then the software update app. A number of people have noted this. It seems to be more of an issue with older machines running XPFacto for OSX. I've had little problems with software update when used for things other then Mac OS upgrades. Will S
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