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Mar 5, 2007 8:07 PM in response to Michael Poszby jpl,Michael,
I can't recall the exact procedure when using XPostFacto...it has been awhile, but after you have booted to the Tiger DVD, do you have the option to perform an Archive & Install instead of updating your existing 10.2.8? -
Mar 5, 2007 10:46 PM in response to jplby Michael Posz,I never get to that point. I start XPostfacto, and the screen comes up showing the hard drive, 2 options to restart in, OS X and OS 9 (Which is not on the laptop anyways) so I leave it on OS X, there is also a button that says restart now in this area. Then on the bottom it says NVRAM options which I left alone. When I insert the install DVD is shows up in the XPostfacto window between the 2 previous options and says select install CD and a button there that says install from cd.when I press that button a box comes up that says "Are you sure you want to install Mac OS X now?" and below that it says " your computer will restart from Mac OS X Install DVD, and install Mac OS X 10.4 to my hard drive. I select install and it starts installing extensions, and updating extensions. Then it comes to a new window that says synchronizing and usually this is where it would bomb out with the error message in my original message. I was going through the actions as I was writing this and it passed that spot now and said it was going to restart with the OS X dvd, but I walked away for a minute and when i came back there is a new message here. because of a problem, installing Mac OS X could not be sompleted. In the log it says Thread 0 crashed then a bunch of other info, then another Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread state and a bunch of other info after that. and that is where it sits right now. I clicked restart and it came up with 8 apples across the top of the screen. and i could hear the DVD running and stopping. I did a restart and reset the pram and ejected the dvd and it looked like it was going to restart, but then the normal apple that was there was gone and now there is a circle with a line thru it on the screen and it woun't boot back to the original version. -
Mar 6, 2007 8:30 AM in response to Michael Poszby jpl,Michael,
It is unknown at this point how much damage has occurred to your original 10.2.8. Take a look at this document for some suggestions:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464
XPostFacto has installed and/or modified a few files so you can boot/install 10.4, and obviously something has gone wrong. If you can get back to 10.2.x and save whatever documents you need, you may wish to then boot to your 10.2 CD, erase your HD and install just 10.2...no updates or anything. Now install XPostFacto (either 9.x or 10.x is required to run XPostFacto), then try the Tiger DVD again. -
May 27, 2007 1:14 PM in response to jplby Cameron McEwen,You might want to try this method on the Lombard instead of xpostfacto
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:2IX9zsdxiSQJ:jonsharp.net/archives/2005/05/0 6/installing-tiger-on-lombard/hack+tiger+installer+%22badmachines%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
It worked like a charm on my Lombard, but does require some work.
Pismo/Beige G3 Mac OS X (10.4.9) G3 400 MHZ, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB HD/G4 500 MHZ , 640 MB RAM, 40GB+50GB HDs -
May 27, 2007 8:00 PM in response to jplby Grant Bennet-Alder,I am not sure it is worth trying to upgrade 10.2.8, bypassing 10.3, and going directly to 10.4 all while using a third-party hack that modifies extensions all over the place. Don't get me wrong -- I use and love XPostFacto -- I just think you are making this too complicated for a process that is a bit fragile to begin with.
I recommend that if you want to do this, you consider installing and starting from OS 9 and install 10.4 as a brand new install, not upgrading any older version of Mac OS X.