[geeks] DVD install of MacOS 10.5.3 or 10.5.4

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Jul 28, 2008, at 18:58 , Lionel Peterson wrote:

> I think the issue exists because Apple sells physical disks for  
> serious money at their APple Stores and related retail outlets, and  
> I would imagine it would get expensive to keep pumping marginally  
> updated DVDs out into the retail supply chain, and I imagine it  
> would produce a lot of out-dated DVDs.

They don't have to "keep pumping them out", just an update now and  
then, or even a 6 month release cycle like a lot of others use.

The current Leopard DVD has broken I/O and filesystem code on it, so  
it really should not be used for drive repair.

The incidence of failure during an Apple fsck/repair is rare, but it  
does happen.

Besides, they could create ISOs of a bare OS with only enough on it to  
run repair.  I don't see a big issue with that if they don't want to  
make full OS releases public.

I solve the issue by periodically installing to a USB drive I can boot  
from.

But when I mention that to the average computer user, they get  
nervous, and it doesn't matter if it is Apple, Windows, Linux, or  
what... they want the one with the shiny retail label, or one they  
downloaded and burned from official sources.

If you think about it, that's prudent for the average user.



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Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com