It's very nice and all but...

[troisd]

I have one and only one OSX86 DVD install disk. I took a long time to get it and it works (with a few fixes here and there). It's 10.4.5 btw.

 

Now fast forward to today. Latest version is 10.4.7 and a security update.

 

How can one manually and safely upgrade to 10.4.7 without crashing their systems?

 

There is definitely a thread explaining the 10.4.5 ==> 10.4.6 using pacifist and Maxxus' script.

 

But how about 10.4.6 ==> beyond?

 

What rules are one to follow to safely update? Give a fish to a man and he will live for a day. Teach the man how to fish and he will live a long time.

 

From what I learned is that from 10.4.5 ==> 10.4.6, select all except kernel directory and install. Replace a few files back. Run Maxxus' script and you're set to go.

 

I believe that only the kernel binaries are forbidden because it will bring back the TPM check routines and non-SSE2 support.

 

Any leads?

[Rammjet]

I read a post where someone updated from 10.4.5 to 10.4.7 using JaS updater except he used the 10.4.7 Combo updater instead of the recommended incremental updater.

 

Remember, there are two parts to the 10.4.7 update:

 

1) The JaS (for Intel) and Myzar (for AMD) don't update the encrpypted binaries.

2) The SemjaZa updates the excrypted binaries.

 

You need both for a "complete" 10.4.7 update.

[troisd]

Forgive my newbieness on the hack scene...

 

Using Pacifist, how can I tell what is encrypted and what is not?

 

From my limited experience with OS X hack scene, I thought only kernel stuff (kernel and kext) is encrypted. Anything else is ok to install as they are not encrypted and simply updates the older binaries of standard apps.

 

And from the few threads I read, SemjaZa's work was that he decrypted the 10.4.7 kernel, meaning we can actually run 10.4.7 with its proper kernel version.

 

Is there decryption going on while running OS X? Isn't that a little bit too much overhead in terms of performance? I'm used to the total freedom Linux provided.