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BIG Leopard install problem

Khryz said:
For everyone who is having upgrading problems, are you using older model of Apple computers?

I have a Macbook that I bought in July, C2D. I'm seeing a lot of iBooks and Powerbooks, and possibly older iMacs. I did hear in the guided tour that Leopard has been designed to work for Macs that have been built in the last several years (which is ~3-4 years). This is my first Mac so I don't know when all those older models came out.
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Nope, Intel MacMini. Not a CD2, just a CD. Bought in the summer.
 
I had a blue screen, too guys - but I put my head against the case, heard the hard drive whirring, let it sit for a while, and eventually it booted.

Patience!
 
i installed and had a lot of issues as well i had to install it two or three times. it was slow to boot the quick look icon didn't show up in there finder the first time i installed. when i open vmware the windows drive disappears off the desktop. vmware was fine but windows with in it crashed a lot. It would index my external drive which is huge. this was taking a long time and couldn't be stopped by the user. bottom line i installed this 3 times and through my experiences, it is stable now, the best advice i have is:

wipe your drive and do a fresh install of everything including software. that means DO NOT transfer your files over from another mac when prompted. this obviously refers to ppl with two macs available to them. I stabilized one and connected the other as a hd and transfered what i needed manually, and i used .mac and my iphone to transfer settings and contacts or you can use migration assistant later. I tried everything an that gave me the best and most stable result.
 
oh balls...

I chose the upgrade option on a one month old iMac - it said installation went well (nice big tick sign!) then I restarted as instructed, to be met with the light blue screen .... I shut down, waited some minutes, then restarted whilst holding down the C key. It went back to the first installation screen, so I've chosen the archive and install this time + we'll see what happens...

Thankfully I bought a Lacie HD and made a back up copy using Super Duper last night.... I wouldn't stress highly enough that a back up of your system before you install this clearly buggy 10.5.0 is essential. If you can't then I'd suggest waiting a week or two for these flaws to be fixed.
 
avalys said:
I had a blue screen, too guys - but I put my head against the case, heard the hard drive whirring, let it sit for a while, and eventually it booted.

Patience!
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I had that too. Could just hear the HD hacking away - so it was doing something. Also, Spotlight reindexes so performance is not so good to start with - so people will need some more patience once the desktop is up and running :D
 
Same thing happened to me.

Did the archive install and everything is good now. One question though by doing this install it ate up over 20GB of space. How can I recover some of this?
 
BobZune said:
Same problem as the first post on this thread on my MacBook (2GB RAM, bought at MacMall a while ago). Thank goodness for you all - I was starting to get concerned after several power cycles on how to get the DVD out (the holding the mouse button while powering up worked). Now doing an Archive&Install. The last UpgradeInstall try took about 1 hour and 10 minutes before I got the blue screen with cursor.

I will post pass/fail in an hour or so (posted now so others can use my experience if they can).
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Update:

ALL WENT WELL.

The Archive&Install worked and the old-old files are still available Time taken for this installation is about 56 minutes (Macbook, 2GB RAM, bought at MacMall about 1.5 years ago). Immediately after install and login, there were 3 items available for me in the Software Update (one was Remote Desktop, didn't notice which ones the others were).

[In the last "failed" install, I waited about 15 minutes and there was still the blue screen with cursor - and at one time, after a power cycle, the beach ball appeared, and no progress after about 10 minutes. I had everything backed up on an external drive, so there were no big worries.]
 
So the Upgrade option basically isn't finished yet, yet Archive & Install and Erase & Install are fine?

If chosing A & I, can you delete the previous system folder once you see everything is going well or will that mess up something?
 
Got the upgrade to work if you follow the "Apple Discussions" thread and you tread very carefully when tying commands in single user.
(Note you may do more damage here !!)

Upgrade now complete... with a bit of naffing around.
 
I've had exactly the same problem. I left it on the blue screen overnight and that didn't help. By the sound of it A & I is the way to go, so I'll give that a try once I'm home from work.
 
Success!

Tinmen said:
Booted using the DVD and used Terminal Utility / UNIX commands to delete files to make space for Archive and Install routine. Starting that process now.

(now 4+ hours into Leopard upgrade)
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Ok, Archive & Install worked as advertised. System is back and looks good!
 
Khryz said:
So the Upgrade option basically isn't finished yet, yet Archive & Install and Erase & Install are fine?

If chosing A & I, can you delete the previous system folder once you see everything is going well or will that mess up something?
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I can't comment authoritatively on the "isn't finished" part, but the startup items appear not to have been the problem (http://www.apple.com/support/leopard/install/). I had iCal, SideNote and Space (a free multi-desktop program). I suspected Space, since Apple includes "Spaces", but after the A&I, Space showed up fine -- automatically on login.

You can delete the Previous System folder if everything is working correctly. I deleted it and reclaimed about 13 GB of disk space.

Time to upgrade my main machine! :)
 
How do I A&I?

With the blue screen still up, how do i go from there to doing an A&I? I cannot get it to do anything beyond the blue screen.
Thanks in advance for the help!!
 
pastimes said:
With the blue screen still up, how do i go from there to doing an A&I? I cannot get it to do anything beyond the blue screen.
Thanks in advance for the help!!
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Here's what I did (you can choose to do it if you want, or try alternative solutions):

When the blue screen with cursor is showing, power off the machine (press and hold power button for a few seconds). Press and hold the C key and power up the machine (holding the C down - assuming the Leopard install DVD is still in the drive). Wait for several seconds (a minute or so), then release the C. The machine will boot again off the DVD. Follow the install process, but right after you select the hard drive to install, click the OPTIONS button at the bottom of the screen, and choose Archive & Install option (you should have enough free disk space left - about 12 GB, I'd guess). They let the install proceed as normal.

After successful installation, updates if any, and reboot, you may want to use the Disk Utility (Applications, Utilities folder) and do a disk verify, and repair permissions and reboot).
 
I had this exact problem. To fix it, I removed my USB hard drive, and did a hard restart... the Leopard install worked straight away...
 
same problem as everyone else.... i tried the single user mode solution and it didnt work... so now i'm sitting here watching the blue background... hoping it will eventually load.

not happy.
 
Same here ...

Reboot - hold down Option ...booting back to the DVD.

Goto the menu and run Disk Utilities - Repair Permissions. Close. Cancel install. Reboot - and hope for the best.
 
talk about freaking out, i spent the better half of two hours waiting for my install to finish

i found a really neat feature on the installer (hey im still new at this) with log files, it was stuck on trying to do postinstall for bsd and as soon as i saw that, the install errored out on me

I restarted the install and although my bloodpressure and perspiration is at an all-time high, it seems to move along ALOT better.

The difference between what i did this time and last time was how I had it erase and what i selected to install.

We all knew this was going to happen testing out a 10.5.0 release
LIVE IT UP FELLAS! :)
 
Got the blue screen same as everyone on the first take. About put the notebook through a wall before I found this thread. Apple needs to put out the memo: Archive and Install. Period.

Rolling Leopard on PowerBook G4 now. Thank you all.
 
Install issues (?) on dual G5 PowerMac

After a couple of tries, I installed on the dual G5 PowerMac (2GB RAM, had put in a new graphics card to support the 30 inch Cinema Display a year or so ago), but it has been showing the beach-ball for over an hour and a half. From other posts, it appears to be Spotlight indexing, so I'll give it another hour or two (managed to see the Spotlight indexing progress bar at 10% or so on one try). Apple should REALLY tell users about it during the install, or there should be some indication other than just a beach-ball to tell the user what it is doing, especially if it is taking more than a minute or two. Can hardly use any application (managed to start iTerm once, but it doesn't respond after opening) so far. That's the second machine with install issues for me - not a great day so far. Away this weekend, so I'll provide an update later.

Update: Reverting to Tiger from (full bootable) backup for now. Will have to work this out later since I am going to be away a few days. The MacBook laptop's working well - just have to work on this G5 machine later.

Update 2: Did a fresh install and then software update, then got stuck in the Setup Assistant loop, did another E&A install and used Migration Assistant to get accounts from the back up. All worked except the *display* part of Time Machine (older dual G5 upgraded with 3rd party - ATI Radeon 9600 PC/Mac - graphics card). Whenever I went into Time Machine, the 30" cinema display's background will split into two and swap left for right. Switching to the ViewSonic P815 worked. Interestingly, after I changed to the 2D Dock, the cinema display problem has mostly gone away (still stutters and is not smooth on the cinema display).
 
Similar but different install issues

Anybody had these issues?
I did the install, and got to the point where OSX asked me to agree to licence agreement, and enter my language preference. So far so good. Then it asks me for my Apple ID info. After typing about 2 characters of my password, it hiccups, the screen goes blue, and then dumps me back at the login screen.

Now, every time I login, OSX tries to get going, but after painting the Macintosh HD icon, and maybe another couple of desktop icons on the screen, it hiccups, the screen goes blue, and I end up back at the login screen again.

I get the same when I try a restart.

I'm running a 24" iMac, no external drive. One thing I did notice is that Leopard seems to have trouble seeing my bluetooth mouse. First time it came up looking for the mouse, I got a message telling me to replace my batteries. I thought they were pretty fresh but trusted that OSX knew best. So, I put in fresh Duracells. Next time I reboot, I get the same message. Knowing I have fresh batteries, I turned the bluetooth mouse off, then back on again, and OSX sees the mouse and goes on with its business.

I'm now busy doing verifying permissions with Disk Utility, and getting ready to try the archive and install option to see if that helps with this issue too.

So many people seem to be having problems. Apple have really screwed this one up. There must be martini parties in Redmond tonight....
 
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