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20031026 Sunday October 26, 2003

The upgrade saga continues... Continuing from yesterday...

Today I tried doing a "clean install" with Panther. That didn't work either - it quit with a "installation failed" error. Finally, I tried erasing my hard drive and going that route. Then Panther said it couldn't find an OS X installation to upgrade. To make matters worse, I can't boot to my OS X 10.1 nor 10.2 install disks. I hold down Ctrl+C with no luck. Thanks to some advice on the Apple Discussion Forums - I'm now restoring back to 10.2. I suppose I'll try to upgrade again after that - but I'm suspicious that the CDs are bad.

Later: Must be a bad install CD. I restored my PowerBook with the restore DVD and tried to upgrade. It made it most of the way through the upgrade, and then gave me a gray screen with a spinner at the bottom. After 20 minutes of waiting, I figured it was hosed and re-installed 10.2 with the DVD. I guess I'll head to the Apple store for an exchange tomorrow. Panther truly sucks right now in my opinion - don't upgrade unless you're a glutten for punishment (like I am). Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 26 2003, 06:43:25 PM MST 1 Comment

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I feel your pain on the install, but once you get a CD that works I think you will find that Panther is a great upgrade. My lowly little iBook 600mHz feels like a new machine! I am actually going to put off buying a new Mac for a while because it is a lot snappier. Blue skies ahead. Good luck with the install!

Posted by Daniel Burns on October 27, 2003 at 08:47 AM MST #

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