On Oct 26, 2011, at 9:02 AM, [email protected] 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
I would power it down and start again, you can't hurt anything, I assume you have a back up of your original system. And yes IMHO DSL is really slow I hate it when I do upgrade for folks when that's all they have as an internet connection. The Apple updates take hours. Did you format the drive before you began?
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