[geeks] DVD install of MacOS 10.5.3 or 10.5.4

[Nadine Miller]

On Aug 5, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> What constantly amazes me is that I can't download an ISO of the  
> vendor-supplied install disc for a given MB. I typically put the  
> network driver on via USB key, then let windows find everything.
>
> The problem with loading drivers in WinXP and Server 2003 is that  
> the underlying OS is 5+ years old...
>
> Vista/Server 2008 will read in USB keys and CDs, but only for  
> storage drivers (I think)...
>
> I wish I could make a folder called $DRIVERS$ in the root dir of a  
> drive and install would query it before giving up on a device...

I thought you could do that with the custom install tools? (It's been  
a while since I've used them.)  Though that would definitely be  
overkill for a one-off home machine.

You shouldn't mention that vendor supplied ISO business, or you'll set  
Shannon off again. ;-)

Aside: I have managed to shoe-horn Vista onto my Fujitsu tablet  
(ST5021) and apart from the SD/Mem stick slot (not recognized) and the  
PCMCIA card slot (haven't tested), it is working pretty well.  Another  
thing I'm not sure about and need to test further.  It appears Vista  
will not let you connect to wired and wireless at the same time.  I  
need to take the tablet out of it's dock to verify that wireless will  
work.  If not, this would be a show-stopper.  But the handwriting  
recognition is considerably improved over XP Tablet.

File operations are laggy (deleting and moving files particularly,  
presumably due to "ghost copy") and it is slow to boot, but the rest  
performs pretty well.  I haven't attacked it with vLite using  
BlackViper's analysis of services, so I may be able to improve  
performance some.  Right now I'm waiting on SP1 to finish downloading.

Specs: 1.1Ghz Pentium M, 2GB RAM, 5400RPM 40GB HD, Intel integrated  
graphics (952/955 GME).

=Nadine=