Greetings all, Thanks to Kris, Peter and the many more who responded to the prior thread regarding the language situation I was in (not a bad situation, I love German, wish I was as fluent in it as I am in English). Anyway, the issue has proven a bit bigger than I had hoped; thought I would report it and see if their is any collective wisdom beyond what I have come up with (I am confident there is MORE wisdom in the group, just looking for other options I am not considering :-)
Here's what I have, physically: G5 tower, 1.6/GHz single CPU, 3 Gig RAM (1 gig OEM, 2 1-Gig sticks added a while ago), 2 identical 250-Gig Seagate SATA drives, Pioneer 112 family super drive. The boot drive was running 10.5.5 (Safari 3.21, iirc) perfectly fine, originally installed from a retail 10.5.1 installer DVD, and successfully updated to 10.5.5 via Software Update when it was current. I was deliberately dragging my heels on further OS updates, waiting to make sure all of the music software (like ProTools) had reported compatibility clearance. A-OK now, and our near-comparable G5 machines at school (1.8GHz/DP) were doing well with like conditions. So, off I go and decide to do the update. The update failed because of a reported "corrupted media source" at the end of the attempt, with a suggested reboot and re-try (yeah, right - at this point I was glad I had cloned my drive prior to all this). The anticipated happened - reboot to be treated to the ever-eternal grey screen with spinning gear, forever and ever. Okay, I can re-clone back to my original state (which in the end is what I have done), or treat the drive to a fresh OS install and perform the updates on a fresh OS. Now the "fun" begins. On first install attempt, the installer went through the media check prior to actual install and reported a (hello) "corrupted media source" and suggested I a) re-try or b) contact Apple rep. for replacement. This has never happened in my experiences, and indeed I found this odd, as the DVD had previously worked quite well on an upgraded G4. So, attempt one failed. Attempt no. 2, I bypass the DVD self-inspection: half-way through the install, it fails, reporting install failure and generating an error log (which I still have. BTW - I can send it to anyone who is interested in what it says - many system crash errors are listed). So, attempt 3 was successful, Both DVD inspection and install, but only with my "babysitting" the process by moving the mouse to make sure the monitor did not go into sleep mode during installation. After booting up in 10.5.1, I downloaded the 10.5.7 Combo update (according to the Apple website, one goes from 10.5.7 to 10.5.8 via the Combo downloads) successfully, deciding to upgrade this way instead of via Software Update (for safety sake-BTW, this I did in German, being treated to my prior adventure at this point). I run 10.5.7 Combo update - it fails, again reporting a "corrupted media source-please reboot and try downloading again". So, I gave up and resorted to re-cloning. I am left with two or three possibilities, to me improbable, but, as it goes, if the improbable is the only option, then it is possible: 1) RAM that WAS good is now suddenly not good 2) an install DVD that WAS good is now suddenly not good. 3) an optical drive that WAS good is suddenly not-so good. Any other options? So sorry for the long read. Thanks for any thoughts in this direction. Best regards, Dana --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
