[X4U] Leopard Install from retail version

[John Erdman]

Hi Neil -

	Thanks for the prompt response.  I now have Leopard 10.5.1 installed on the iMac G5. I too, rarely use anything but but the "stand-alone" software update downloads from Apple.  But now I am unable to get make any of the upgrades work on the G5 with the newly installed OS X 10.5.1. (Remember that I have done these very updates before on this computer)

I have tried both the Software Update... route and about three of the applicable standalone updates. They seem to all hang up as the Installer app starts to work. None of my attempts have gotten even to the first window where I usually have the opportunity to tell it to "Continue".  I do see in a couple of places that the installer app is not responding. 

Searching the Apple discussion lists so far hasn't turned up anything..

Any thoughts?

Thanks
John



On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote:

> I personally never do system updates via Software Update…you only get the incremental  update in that case instead of a combo update customized for the individual machine…I use the downloaded Combo Update instead which replaces every file that has been changed since the original installation of 10.5.0. Probably overkill…but that's just the way I do it. Once you get hers installed . . .ignore all Software updates that get offered temporarily…then download and install the 10.5.8 Combo Update from Apple. After that let Software Update do it's thing, reboot if required, and Software Update again until there are no more updates as sometimes an update only gets offered if previous updates are already done.