Re: Tiger upgrade (mac osx): help needed!

[Richard Maine]

In article <031020050022383933%kiran@no.email>, Kiran <kiran@no.email> 
wrote:

> The installer is in an upgrade dvd from 10.3 . As I already have 10.4,
> it won't let me proceed to the step you are describing. 

Eh. I didn't know there was such an animal. And I'm doutful. All the 
10.4 DVD's I have seen are a full 10.4, which will either upgrade or 
install anew. It would be a pain if you had to rebuild a trashed system 
by first installing 10.3 and then upgrading. I've never heard anyone 
have to do such a thing, as would be needed if there was an "upgrade 
only" DVD.

Did you actually look on the dvd and scroll down? The only step to 
proceed through is mounting the CD and scrolling down. Do  *NOT* start 
an install or upgrade. Just scroll down the window. Really. Try it. If 
you are talking about "not getting to that step", that sure sounds like 
you are trying to do an install/upgrade instead of just scrolling down 
the window.

> Another person (herapx@gmail.com) has posted similar experience: "When
> I try to install x11usr.pkg, I am told that i am not allowed to do that
> because newer software is already in the computer. Where? What do i do
> now?" See that thread.

That's exactly the message I got in my 10.4 system when I tried to use 
the x11usr.pkg downloaded from Apple's. The x11usr.pkg from Apple's web 
site is 10.3 only (unless they have upgraded it since I last looked) and 
gets *exactly* that message if you try to install it on a 10.4 system.

And I've seen several other people get the same message from installing 
the x11usr.pkg from Apple. Where did you get x11.pkg if it wasn't from 
the DVD? If it was from Apple's web site, that's exactly the one that I 
and several others got... and we saw exactly the same message. The 
solution in every case has been to install the pkg that is on the 10.4 
DVD instead.

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