10.2.3
10.2.3
- Subject: 10.2.3
- From: Yan Feng <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:22:47 +0800
Little warning for those of you installing this on older Power Mac G3s and
early G4s: install this update, and pretty much, live to regret.
I failed to check up on macfixit.com first (they wrote advice on this) and
installed 10.2.3 from 10.2.2 (combo) on a Power Mac G4 400 MHz a BeiMac
member sold to me for cheap, and I failed to follow the advices given. Guess
what - when the Login screen should have appeared, I get the hard disk
scrambling for whatever it was after, and then nothing. I simply couldn't
log in. Then I had to set the iBook up to get to the Web via AirPort. MFI
took forever and a day to load, so I killed the pics, and only then - 12
minutes into the dilemna - could I figure out what on earth was up with the
G4.
My next instinct was to grab Disc 1 and to clean reinstall Jag - FireWire
target mode and Ethernet attempts, as well as God-knows-how-many-times of
fsck -y at the Unix prompt had an efficiency rate of about zero % (and I was
pretty clueless on SSH, which MFI "suggested".) I had about 1.25 GB of free
space and couldn't do without the 7 languages I speak (English, Swiss
German, Swiss French, Italian, Chinese simp + trad, Japanese, Korean), so I
installed the two Chinese, Japanese and Korean and English localised files
first. It gave me 200 MB free. I then had to move all fonts to the new
Library folder (clean reinstall I did).
Then I had to activate and log in as root to trash the old System folder,
then kill root access and reinstall the remaining bits, then upgrade to
10.2.2. It was hell on Sunday night and boy - that killed a lot of pressing
ongoing assignments.
(Through all this, the iBook was unaffected and happily booted off 10.2.3
6G20 without the slightest bit of a hitch.)
Hopefully my little tale/experience will prevent others from having their
Macs messed up by the 10.2.3 update. BTW, I posted this on the local Mac
board in China.
Really, what's up with Apple - is it REALLY dropping the older generation
behind? I thought that when I bought my 7500 in '95, the Irish comp teacher
said, "this will be good for 5 - 10 years". Looks like it's more 5 - 10
months and then the lid's thrown on your machine... not really, but gives me
haunting experiences to fear...
Yan Feng
President - BeiMac
Beijing Macintosh User Group
http://www.beimac.com/
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