[geeks] DVD install of MacOS 10.5.3 or 10.5.4

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Aug 1, 2008, at 15:02 , Nadine Miller wrote:

> You're telling me an average Mac user can't connect an external hard  
> drive, put in a DVD, open Disk Utility, and select "Restore" and the  
> external HD?  Those are the exact steps unless you want to customize  
> it.  I had to go a step further, because all I had was an ISO of the  
> install DVD--I had to mount the ISO.

The majority of them follow Apple's instructions, which are to boot  
from their install media.

>> For most end users, it would be prudent for Apple to ship at least  
>> a simple bootable repair CD with the fixed filesystem (and other)  
>> code in it.
>
> I've not read anything about these bugs, nor have I experienced  
> anything like you suggest.

It was a major problem for months for anyone who pushed Leopard in  
file I/O.

VMware had to release an interim version of Fusion that deliberately  
slowed disk I/O to keep the machine from crashing or losing data.

Most everyone else just waited.

You missed a big one if you missed that.

> In any case, if you really think you need that, why don't you get a  
> developer's subscription?

Give them hundreds of dollars for something they should provide any  
customer already?

Nah.

I made my own recovering disk for this, but I still think Apple should  
provide one.

Read the forums, people need this.

Apple even shipped Mac Pro machines with install disks the machine  
won't even boot from, and if you have an iMac, you can boot but it's  
buggy as hell.

> Anyone who's doing that kind of VMware or DB work would be wise to  
> do so anyway, just to stay on top of all development issues.

Not really, there isn't much there of use if you are not writing Mac  
software.

For that matter, sometimes it isn't that great if you are.

Apple waited far too long to give developers access to Leopard, which  
is one reason why the release was so buggy and software issues were so  
bad.

The developers should have had it for at least 6 months before it was  
released.

Too much pressure from Vista I guess.

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