I'm going to not give you bad advice on this, but just a replay on similarities between our situations.
Recently I purchased an mdd g4 dual 1.25(It's awesome, yet underpowered by today's standards) and had 10.4.11 installed. Well I have an iphone 4 and needed 10.5 for the newer iTunes so I could update it. I received my copy of leopard installed and the machine took twenty tries to finally get installed then it went into an infinite loop for the installer and would never boot into leopard. I decided to just turn the computer off( since it was a project) and put it away. One day decided to install slackintosh on this machine so I decided to for gits and shiggles reset the pram and all the other things I've read and restart it. Lo and behold this computer started booting onto Mac os x ( which I was confused since it didn't seem to ever completely finish installing......) and bampf ta daa a brand new fresh install of leopard was staring me in the face. Cool? Totally. How does this relate? The same dang thing happened when I installed updates . So try it or don't, whatever. Sent from my iPhone 4 On Oct 26, 2011, at 11:02 AM, "t...@io.com" <t...@prismnet.com> wrote: > I am trying to update a 1.25 GHz MDD (single G4) from a clean install > of 10.5 to 10.5.8. Perhaps naively, I let Software Update do its > thing and after a couple hours of downloading through our slow DSL > connection, things were chugging along. > > I should note that Software Update was performing five updates total, > including the Mac OSX Combo 10.5.8 update. > > Last night the machine was sitting with a solid light blue screen with > a message box in the center showing almost no progress on the progress > bar and a caption reading, "Configuring Installation" and this morning > it appears to be in exactly the same state. > > I can't seem to bring up the Activity Monitor (or whatever it's > called) with a cmd-opt-esc and there are no menus nor buttons on the > screen. However, I'm hesitant to shut down with the power button. > > Thank you for any helpful or humorous suggestions, > > Jeff Walther > > -- > 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
