[X4U] 10.4.1 on various machines

[Roy van der Westhuizen]

On May 27, 2005, at 10:54 AM, Roy van der Westhuizen wrote:

>
>> A quick question relating to a problem already solved. Last weekend
>> I dl'd 10.4.1 to my PB 17 G4 1 Gig. I then installed it onto my
>> wife 17" iMac 1.6 G5. It would not install onto my secretaries 1.25
>> emac, so I dl'd a version directly onto her machine. Mail worked
>> fine on my machine and my secretaries, but not on my wife's iMac.
>> To cut a long story short I dl'd another version of 10.4.1 from the
>> Apple site, not Software update, directly onto her machine, and
>> mail now works properly. On the Apple site it said one should dl
>> from there if you want to install the update on multiple machines.
>> My question, do the updates differ for various machines if using
>> Software update and is it always advisable to dl directly to each
>> machine, or did Mail somehow become corrupt in transferring 10.4.1
>> from the PB G4 to the imac G5?
>>

Kirk McElhearn replied.

> Yes, the updates are different - I saw that on my 4 Macs at home -
> the update size for my iBook was something like 28 MB, but for my old
> iMac it was only about 18MB. So do download either from Software
> Update to each machine, or download the "complete" updater from the
> Apple site.

Thanks Kirk. That helps me make sure that my Saturday system updates  
are done correctly and my wife stops saying how much she prefers her  
old iMac 800; and before that her original iMac and before that…

Regards,

Roy