From: RobertB 

In article ,
 "Rich Gauszka"  wrote:

> "RobertB"  wrote in message
> news:missinglink-6F874E.09565514032007{at}news.barkto.com...
> > In article ,
> > Rich Gauszka  wrote:
> >
> >> Rich Gauszka wrote:
> >> > All 163 mb of it
> >> >
> >> > http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304821
> >>
> >> Macbook survived the update - now for the mini
> >
> > I'll probably install it this weekend.
>
> It appears that a samall ( for now) percentage of users have had a problem
> with a corrupt download. This link may be of interest.

Yeah, I've been reading some of the Mac sites. Hard to know just how
representative they are, but the reports are pretty grim. Personally, I've
never had a bad experience with an upgrade from Apple; not that I can
recall.


>
> http://net3x.blogspot.com/2007/03/macos-x-1049-update-killed-my-mac.html
>
> Today I tried to install the 10.4.9 update for MacOS X that Apple has just
> released. Unfortunately something went wrong when installing the update and
> I got an error message saying that the installation was unsuccessful and the
> installer was moved to the Trash. After that I was prompted to restart,
> because of other updates.
>
> So I restarted my MacBook Pro and let it run for some time. When I came back
> a bit later (at least 10minutes after the restart), I found the computer
> stuck at the blue screen, that appears just before the login screen comes
> up.
>
> In hopes that another restart will fix everything I powered off the notebook
> and started it again. This time it got stuck on the grey screen with the
> Apple logo and a wheel spinning forever:
>
> ---
>
> additional screenshots etc at link
> ---
>
> Fortunately I managed to fix this and this is the way to do it, just in case
> more of you get stuck with this issue:
>
>    1. Use another computer (or a live CD/DVD OS) to download the Mac OS X
> 10.4.9 Combo Update from the Apple website: Intel, PPC
>    2. Put the update on a USB key
>    3. Boot from Mac OS X Installation Disc (put the disc in, restart and
> hold c key)
>    4. When the installer starts open a Terminal and copy the update from the
> USB key to your computer's hard drive
>
>       cp /Volumes/YOUR_USB_KEY/MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.9Intel.dmg
> /Volumes/YOUR_HDD/
>
>    5. Mount the dmg file
>
>       hdiutil attach /Volumes/YOUR_HDD/MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.9Intel.dmg
>
>    6. Run the update
>
>       /Volumes/YOUR_HDD/usr/bin/open /Applications/Utilities/Installer.app
> /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.4.9\ Combined\ Update\
> \(Intel\)/MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.9Intel.pkg
>
>    7. Restart your computer when prompted
>    8. Delete the dmg file
>
> Credits go to Mike Brooks who inspired me with his post in a forum
> discussion.
>
> It seems that I'm not the only one who's having this problem. I wonder what
> is triggering this and why only certain users are experiencing these
> difficulties.

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