here's a really nice guide about how to create a USB installer ->
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/20075605/
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Resolved 2006/2007 Mac Pro (1,1/2,1) and OS X Yosemite
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here's a really nice guide about how to create a USB installer ->
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/20075605/
That's the one I used.
Do I still need to replace the USB drive's boot.efi if my ioreg reports "firmware-abi" = <"EFI64">?
just follow the guide step by step and it'll work. I did it myself over and over again (few hours ago with the Yosemite release) and it works flawless.
I know and that's the most frustrating part. I already tried to install 2 times last night and a third a few minutes ago with a freshly built USB drive. I have no idea what's going on, I'm following the guide to the letter.
sorry to hear that. in my experience, not every USB stick or external HDD works. have you tried using another thumbdrive or external disk to create the installer on? just last week I ran into this obstacle...
I'm using the same thumbdrive as the Mavericks install. I'm going to try another one...
nah, nothing compares to the NeXT GUIowning a bunch of NeXTcubes myself, I still am very much in love with the old 2-bit greyscale GUI. it so was not distracting from the content or work on the screen. BTW: the Dock needs to be placed vertically on the right border of the screen
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When editing "Distribution" and PlatformSupport-plist, are you ABSOLUTELY sure you didn't use curly quotation marks such as 〝〞? If you are ABSOLUTELY sure, make ABSOLUTELY sure AGAIN. More likely than not, that's the reason it isn't working for you. Some editors add such quotation marks by default, even if that isn't your intention. The quotation marks MUST be straight: ".
I don't add the machine IDs, I just replace existing ones (don't need the others anyway). this way, I never ran into troubles with quotation marks...
IT WORKED!!!
Turns out that was the problem. I was absolutely sure but yes I made absolutely sure again.
Textedit added a curly quotation at the end by default for some reason. I indeed replaced the last one by straight quotation and....here I am posting this from Yosemite! IT WORKED!!!
Turns out that was the problem. I was absolutely sure but yes I made absolutely sure again.
Glad to hear it worked for you.
"one more thing"...
I found the Finder a bit slower than usual and checking my Activity Monitor, I see that kernel_task constantly takes about 40% of cpu...is this still part of the "optimization" after installation? It warned that it could take a while so I'm wondering...
[edit] looks like it's related to my Avid audio interface and not even related to Yosemite, let alone this particular discussion, so nevermind... I'm figuring it out...
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"one more thing"...
I found the Finder a bit slower than usual and checking my Activity Monitor, I see that kernel_task constantly takes about 40% of cpu...is this still part of the "optimization" after installation? It warned that it could take a while so I'm wondering...
Spotlight is probably indexing.
Got stuck now, Im at the point where Im adding board IDs and the link to download the flat package editor doesn't work, how do I get it and where from?
The link does work. You have to search for "Auxiliary Tools" like it says in the guide.
I found it on my developer account, but now I'm stuck at "drag the distribution file to desktop" I'm so crap at this
Which is the distribution file?
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Mac Pro 1,1 Yosemite
Hi I've currently got Mavericks on my Mac Pro 1,1, I installed it using my new iMac by connecting a SSD and using the iMac to do the install then copying over the boot.efi files or whatever they are called. Can I do the same for Yosemite if so why files do I have to replace etc?
Hi I've currently got Mavericks on my Mac Pro 1,1, I installed it using my new iMac by connecting a SSD and using the iMac to do the install then copying over the boot.efi files or whatever they are called. Can I do the same for Yosemite if so why files do I have to replace etc?
You can do the same thing and you will need to replace the boot.efi files with the new ones for Yosemite.
fwiw, I think the xar option for editing the Distribution file is an easier (and faster) solution than FPE.