durrell Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Well I installed OSX today and the only major issue I had was the Disk Utility wanting to reformat my entire hard drive. I booted the Linux System Rescue CD to use Gparted and made a FAT32 partition, then formatted it to HFS+ with the Disk Utility in the installer. That worked great. Then on my first attempt, the install errored out. So I gave it another shot, and it worked like a charm. I'm liking it so far. However..I have a few questions. I'm running a Pentium 4 3.00 GHZ Northwood..SSE2. Does 10.4.10 support SSE2? I thought I had seen that 10.4.9 and up only supported SSE3 processors, but I found another site saying that 10.4.10 supports both SSE2 and SSE2 processors. I'm a bit confused there. IF 10.4.10 supports my SSE2 processor, do I need to update to 10.4.9 BEFORE updating to 10.4.10? Or can I jump from 10.4.8 to 10.4.10? The only "problem" I seem to be having is when I click the "About this Mac" to view information about the computer, it doesn't restart the whole system..but it restarts the window manager. I'm not sure what is causing it, any help would be appreciated. I don't even know if that feature is supported on a non-Mac, but the screenshots I saw in the tutorial showed it. This isn't a big deal, but it would be nice to be able to screenshot it and prove to the naysayers that I'm running OS X and not a skinned Windows XP install. Everything else worked out of the box, sound, video, mouse, everything. The only hardware issue I'm having is the command key on my keyboard isn't recongnized. I have a Logitech MX700 wireless keyboard, which is supposed to be compatible with the Mac (it even has the Apple and Command symbol on the key)..but it's not working. Edit: I fixed my keyboard. Installed Logitech Control Center, and now my command key works. In case this is necessary, I'm running: MSI 865PE Neo2-V Mobo ICH5 chipset P4 3.00ghz Northwood Nvidia GeForce 6200 AC'97 audio Triple booting with Windows XP and Gentoo Linux via GRUB bootloader. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56953-install-is-working-great-have-a-few-questions/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 To fix your Finder crashing problem, search for the 10.4.4.loginwindow patch. You have to go from 1048 to 1049, then to 10410. I am pretty sure 10410 supports SSE2... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56953-install-is-working-great-have-a-few-questions/#findComment-407100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
durrell Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 Thanks for the reply. I've searched a ton for the patch, I've found only 2..10.4.4 and 10.4.5. 10.4.4 didn't work, and 10.4.5 crashed the window manager altogether and fell back into Darwin (I guess that's what the Terminal is called with no window manager). Am I looking in the wrong place for the loginwindow patch? If someone could point me in the right direction, it would be very much appreciated. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56953-install-is-working-great-have-a-few-questions/#findComment-407174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 10.4.4.loginwindow.pkg.zip Download, unzip, and install. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56953-install-is-working-great-have-a-few-questions/#findComment-407527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
durrell Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 Thanks a lot! Last question..what's the easiest way to update from 10.4.8 to .9, then .10? Or is it even really that necessary? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56953-install-is-working-great-have-a-few-questions/#findComment-407545 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 My suggestion is, if everything is working fine, don't bother. It will either upgrade and be nearly the exact same thing it was before, or fail and you'll lose everything. It's not worth the risk, in my opinion. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56953-install-is-working-great-have-a-few-questions/#findComment-407553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
durrell Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 That was my exact thought. I'll just stick with .8 since everything is working fine. Thanks a lot for the help Ramm, I really appreciate it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56953-install-is-working-great-have-a-few-questions/#findComment-407588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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