[G4] 10.2.8 update installer STILL dies...

[Scott]

Coming in late on this thread. Still running 9 primarily (Have 10.2 and 
play with it some), so I may be out in left field somewhere,
but is there a possibility of a required firmware update you may be missing?
Good Luck,
Scott

Snoke Jay S NPRI wrote:

>okie, here's the story on trying to do the 10.2.8 update:
>1.  a beige G3 with a zif upgrade will not boot into single-user mode by holding down the CMD-S keys.  It doesn't matter if I use the ADB keyboard that originally came with the system or not (I have an OrangeMicro USB/Firewire card in it, and the driver must not be immediately loaded...). 
>2.  I ran disk utility and repaired the disk to the extent it would/can repair a boot disk, and there were a few permissions that got repaired.
>3.  I booted the system up with the Norton SystemWorks CD and ran Disk Doctor - several things were fixed there as well.
>4.  I finally managed to get the system to boot off the hard drive - for those who don't know, this is not easily done, since the last known boot drive is the CD-ROM in this case and the CD doesn't allow yoou to select any other boot disk...
>5.  I still can not do the update - the installer (either the full or the short update version) still dies.  *&^%$#! weird.
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>any other ideas???
>Jay
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>>after you hold down CMD-S and are booted into single user mode, a command
>>prompt will come up (just like using the terminal, though it will occupy
>>the full screen) simply type "fsck -y" and hit enter (no quotes) it will
>>do its thing, checking the integrity and structure of the file system
>>(thus the "fsck" - "FileSystemChecK") run it repeatedly until it returns
>>"drive was ok" 2 consecutive times. most of all, good luck =)
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>>sandor
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>>On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Snoke Jay S NPRI wrote:
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>>>thx, Wayne - will try this when I get home.
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>>>>>I fixed priveledges as well, and tried again while all this was on-going.
>>>>>how do I boot into single user mode?  I assume the system has to be shut
>>>>>down first, then booted while holding down a key or two on the keyboard?
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>>>>>>did you try fixing volume privleges via disk utility?
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>>>>>>if that doesnt work i would also try booting into single user mode and
>>>>>>running fsck, but i would first try disk utility. 
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>>>>>>sandor
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>>>>>>>	I did that.  I also tried the full update as well, thinking there
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>>>>>was some corruption;  however, when the disk image is decompressed, I
>>>>>imagine the sumcheck would spot the problem right off the bat...  anyone
>>>>>else have a suggestion?
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>>>>>>>	Snoke
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>>>>>>>>first thing to try - re-download the installer. if something got 
>>>>>>>>corrupted during the download, this type of thing could happen.
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>>>>>>>>sandor
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>>>>>>>>On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 04:34  PM, Snoke Jay S NPRI wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>Listas-
>>>>>>>>>	Over the weekend, I tried to update my OS X 10.2.6 on my
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>>>>>beige G3 
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>>>>>>>>>with a G4 ZIF to OS X 10.2.8.  The installer quit unexpectedly, so
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>>>>>>>>>tried it again...and again...to no avail.  Any ideas as to what
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>>>>>>>>>be causing this?
>>>>>>>>>tia-
>>>>>>>>>Jay Snoke
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