Oct 30
Have you run into trouble installing or upgrading to Leopard on your Mac? I did!
Check out this static page I’ve created on the issues I’ve come across. Got an issue? Post a comment!
Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools
Tips and Tricks for Apple's Leopard operating system
October 31st, 2007 at 11:57 am
I had an odd issue where the install failed fairly early copying files onto the system. It consistently happened on a Mac Pro. The system would only boot into single user mode. I then tested it on an old PowerMac G4 and it worked perfectly. Come to find out the disc had a small scratch that caused the install to fail on intel hardware.
Had to call apple tech support and then drive to an apple store for an exchange. System then though there was no previous version and installed happily. (I had previously tried an archive and install) I was able to copy the files backed up from that from my home directory and get going again.
October 31st, 2007 at 12:32 pm
thats crazy! but it makes sense (the scratch was on the intel portion of the disc).. damn! lucky about recovering those files too!
I’m having some airport card pains in my G5 iMac at the moment. The latest software update killed it, and it wont even load the airport kernel modules anymore. no network for that machine until I get some answers, or do a clean re-install I guess!
December 12th, 2007 at 8:41 am
I’m having printer issues from my leopard install. InDesign CS won’t print and a small coupon printer app also won’t print. I’m getting around the CS thing by printing to ps to the desktop and printing the resulting pdf’s out of preview. Oddly enough, Photoshop CS will print. So far no other problems. Hope it stays that way.