One more bit of info

[Milo Velimirovic]

On Nov 15, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> Conrad G T Yoder wrote:
>> Do you have another Mac from which you can run yours in TDM?  I  
>> would then
>> run the 10.4.11 Combo Updater on your HD.
>
> I'm going to commandeer my wife's system tonight, hopefully.  I  
> scp'd the combo updater (it's HUGE!) to the black macbook in a  
> directory under my home.
>
> All the disk tests I run show that something is just keeping  
> loginwindow from running...the drive seems fine, my personal data  
> seems fine.
>
> *sigh* stupid updates. To be fair, this is the first time I've had  
> an issue with them.
>
> If I boot with the black system as a firewire drive and the white  
> one as the host, then run the combo updater, does it prompt you  
> where to install the updates?  I don't want to accidentally install  
> the updater to my wife's system.

I just tested this on my G4 TiBook running 10.4.10. I connected to an  
AFP server, mounted the 10.4.11 combo update DMG, double clicked the  
installer package, clicked through to the "Select a Destination"  
pane... so I would be astonished if you didn't get a chance to choose  
what disk you updated. Given all the excitement you've had, worst case  
would be that the Installer wouldn't allow you to pick the disk you  
wanted 'cause it didn't think it was upgradeable, but you'd at least  
get the chance to bail out at that point.

Good Luck!
- Milo (hoping my TiBook doesn't decide to get hosed now that I've  
clicked "install"....)


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