[X4U] Leopard Install from retail version (Solved by reinstall OS)

[John Erdman]

Neil -   Thanks for your help. In frustration I finally archived and reinstalled from the original DVD. That seemed to do the trick. First time I tried the update from the downloaded stand-alone version everything went smoothly.  Other than the problem with the update installer I had no idea there was a problem. So after killing the best part of two days her computer is now ready to connect to MobileME.

John




On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:33 PM, John Erdman wrote:

> The G5's OS was Tiger 10.4.8. I upgraded using the retail version of the Leopard Install DVD. It booted and seems to be working OK except for the upgrade issues.
> The Combos for both the PPC and Intel are combined into one file.   
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> The installer that is on the DVD seems to work fine. The "installer" that I suspect is the problem is the installer that manages the upgrade process from the downloads. I'm getting the same symptoms from 4 different stand-alone upgrade packages downloaded from Apple.
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>> I suppose if you did a fresh install (or archive and install) of 10.5.1 and just ran Software Update it will give you pretty much the equivalent of a Combo Update…you might give that a shot.
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> Actually, this was my original plan but but after I had 10.5.1 installed and operating, I found the Software Update hung up in a very similar fashion to what I've been seeing with the stand-alone updates.
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> I'm about ready to try reinstalling Leopard because I'm running out of useful ideas. Fixing permissions had no effect.
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> I'd really like to get to the bottom of this one!
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> John
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