When you're making that big of a jump between revs it's almost always best to do the delta updates rather then the "combo" or full updates. The combo updates are what they would be downloading to your machine from the App Store. You have to go to the OSX support Web site for each rev and download each of the delta updates individually.
>From that big of a jump I would probably try to do a clean install with the >latest supported OSX rev, Trying to update over 3-4 revs is going to be >problematic at best. This is not an Apple issue - it would be like trying to jump from the original XP version to SP4 in one step. That big of a gap and stuff is going to break. MacDan On Aug 23, 2014, at 6:46 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I managed, again, to boot into recovery mode then was able to reboot from the > recovery HD image, and it worked. I shut off the sleep and now it is > downloading 10.9 Mavericks about 2/3 there. I am hoping this cures it. I > hate their stupid names. > > It is funny, when it finally came alive again, the apps I had open when it > tried to reboot last night are all open and my file I was using is there. I > guess somehow it saves a "state" so it can be recovered. It rebooted into > 10.3 I think, which was before the 10.8 updates. So it was trying to go from > .3 to .8.5 Whatever, it should be finished in awhile, I'll see what sorts. > > I am not doing anything of the sort to my desktop machine, it can just crunch > along on its old state. > > I will make a recovery DVD I guess when this all gets sorted. > > --R > > > On 8/23/14 6:37 PM, Peter Frederick wrote: >> This is why I keep a bootable disk around -- you can make a full copy of the >> OS onto a DVD or external drive using Disk Utility or Carbon Copy Cloner, >> and that way you can always at least boot the stinking thing and get on line. >> >> Do you have another Mac around and a Firewire cable? You should be able to >> boot the laptop into disk mode and connect it to another computer, thus >> allowing you to run disk utility and possibly transfer a working copy of the >> OS. >> >> Peter >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
