[G4] DVD

[John S. Baltutis]

What OS? Software Update on OS 9+ has been known to fail for numerous
reasons (search Apple's Knowledge Base or the Discussion Forum at
<http://www.info.apple.com/siteindex.taf> for details). You might have to
dump the Software Update prefs file and try again. The standalone updates
don't rely on the Software Update Engine, Scheduler, or prefs file;
therefore, they work.

FWIW, Software Update works flawlessly in OS X, at least it never failed
for me and I haven't seen any failures reported.

HTH

On 12/10/02, Thomas Ethen <cacanne at chibardun.net> wrote:
>
> I am not sure what "don't get pissy" means, as I was just explaining my dial
> up situation, that I had not mentioned before. My only question was: Why
> does the update work when I go to Apple's site and do it manually and the
> automated software update does not work. The files are the same size that
> are downloades!
>
> on 12/10/02 9:52 AM, Wilkin, Wayne (Mass) at Wayne.Wilkin at Staples.com wrote:
>
>> What you need to remember is that when you do updates with Software update
>> vs. downloading them you are doing the updates and installs a totally
>> different way. Don't get pissy, it was just a suggestion. I have had it
>> happen to me personally, that's why I suggested it. I can't imagine even
>> doing some of the software updates over a dial-up, with some of the sizes of
>> the updates.