Sabr Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Well, as the title suggests, is it possible for me to install 10.4.4 from a native / VMWare 10.4.1? I've been racking my brains out trying to get it to work, but each time I double click the OSInstall.mpkg, it opens, asks to check whether it's compatibe with my system, and then closes straight after (leaving me unable to access the log file too... ). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invader J Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 hahahahaha! see my post in the Installation forum: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=9346 Trying the same thing. I DID get it to work ONCE. And I definitely have the paths in the BaseSystem right, and the return true; statement in the OSInstall package... but I keep getting the same {censored}. =( It feeeeels like it should be possible given that one time it did work, but who knows. We need our superior's $0.02. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Well, as the title suggests, is it possible for me to install 10.4.4 from a native / VMWare 10.4.1? I've been racking my brains out trying to get it to work, but each time I double click the OSInstall.mpkg, it opens, asks to check whether it's compatibe with my system, and then closes straight after (leaving me unable to access the log file too... ). Yes 10.4.1 is not able to open the mpkg. You would have to install a 10.4.3 system first, to go on installing 10.4.4. from there. If you want to keep your 10.4.1. settings, you can use the migration manager from within 10.4.4. and select your 10.4.1. harddisk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted February 19, 2006 Author Share Posted February 19, 2006 Man... well, thanks for letting me know... Would you believe I've probably sat at this PC for atleast 9 or 10 hours, trying to get the dang thing to work! Oh well, 10.4.3 here I come... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58233 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted February 19, 2006 Author Share Posted February 19, 2006 Ok, before I obtain 10.4.3, is there ANY other way to install it without using 10.4.3 ??? Thanks... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeguy Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 installer[346]: It took 0.066722 seconds to parse the distribution script "OSInstall.dist" installer[346]: It took 0.014177 seconds to -[iFDistXMLDocument readAndValidateDocument] installer[346]: JS: checkSupportedBootRom threw exception TypeError - Undefined value installer[346]: JS: checkSupportedBootRom threw exception TypeError - Undefined value installer[346]: JS: checkSupportedBootRom threw exception TypeError - Undefined value installer[346]: JS: checkSupportedBootRom threw exception TypeError - Undefined value installer[346]: JS: checkSupportedBootRom threw exception TypeError - Undefined value installer[346]: JS: checkSupportedBootRom threw exception TypeError - Undefined value installer[346]: It took 0.022281 seconds to perform the Installation Check installer[346]: It took 1.428927 seconds to do the initial process of the targets installer[346]: / cannot be used as a target because: Mac OS X cannot be installed onto the running system volume. installer[346]: It took 1.107184 seconds to process the volume "macosx1041" installer[346]: It took 0.000277 seconds to perform a Volume Check on "macosx-10.4.4" installer: Package name is Mac OS X installer: Installing onto volume mounted at /Volumes/macosx-10.4.4. installer[346]: It took 0.093888 seconds to process the volume "macosx-10.4.4" installer[346]: Starting installation: installer[346]: Preparing volume "macosx-10.4.4" for installation installer[346]: Configuring volume "macosx-10.4.4" installer[346]: Preparing disk for local booted OS Install installer[346]: Create temporary directory "/private/tmp/OSInstall.mpkg.346W3hZzi" installer[346]: run preflight script for Mac OS X installer[346]: run preflight script for Base System Part 1 installer[346]: run preflight script for Essentials installer[346]: run preflight script for BSD Subsystem installer[346]: run preflight script for Additional Essentials installer[346]: run preflight script for Migration Assistant installer[346]: run preflight script for iTunes installer[346]: Assembling temporary receipt for Mac OS X installer[346]: Processing Base System Part 1: installer[346]: Initialize patching installer[346]: Determining files to install installer[346]: Evaluating versions of bundles installer[346]: Evaluating custom file version checking installer[346]: Configuring deferred files installer[346]: Assembling temporary receipt installer[346]: Performing pre-extraction actions installer[346]: run preinstall script for Base System Part 1 installer[346]: Creating destination path installer[346]: Extracting files installer[346]: Install failed: Some files for BaseSystem may not have been written correctly. installer: The install failed. Tried installing 10.4.4 over my 10.4.1 as well and here's the problem i encountered. Seems that the installer fails when attempting to extract the files. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58299 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invader J Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Right now I'm installing Max's 10.4.2 Executable patch - maybe that'll work. I'll report in soon! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invader J Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Hey weeguy, did you do anything special to get that far? I was pretty much following Max's 10.4.4 instructions and kept getting an EXEC_BAD_INSTRUCTION error when running OSInstall package... my path is right and the hardware check change is too... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invader J Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Okaaaay, making progress. Copy the Plugins folder from the OSInstall package to a secure backup folder somewhere, then delete it from the package. That'll get you into the installation process. I've got it installing now, keeping a close eye on the Installer log, no problems so far... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted February 19, 2006 Author Share Posted February 19, 2006 Okaaaay, making progress. Copy the Plugins folder from the OSInstall package to a secure backup folder somewhere, then delete it from the package. That'll get you into the installation process. I've got it installing now, keeping a close eye on the Installer log, no problems so far... If this works you are going to be my hero!! I'm gonna try it now... I'll let you know... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58509 Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeguy Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Thanks Invader J. Managed to get into the Installer from there. Was using the command line installer previously since I couldn't get the UI of Installer.app to show. That aside, I'm still unable to get over the same part of the install where it begins installing. The log from this time round says, Feb 20 09:43:56 wees-computer : preinstall[422]: /Users/wee/Desktop/Packages/BaseSystem.pkg/Contents/Resources/preinstall: line 22: /Users/wee/Desktop/Packages/BaseSystem.pkg/../OSInstall.mpkg/Contents/Resources/ConfMigrator: Bad executable (or shared library) Did you guys manage to complete the install? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58608 Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeguy Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 my bad.. missed the part in the instructions -> copy the entire "Packages" sub-folder to the top-level (!) of a volume with at least 3,5 GByte free. Copied the folder to somwhere which wasn't at the top-level. It's beginning to install now, keeping fingers crossed.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58623 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invader J Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Oy. Did this twice now with no luck. After getting through the entire install and going on with Max's instructions, on reboot I get the error "Operating System not installed"! Not sure why exactly, the Windows partition was fully visible and everything under OS X... Oh well, thats a few hours I'll never get back. At least we found a way to get the installation to run! In fact I'm sure this would work fine if I had two drives - I'm on a laptop with 4 partitions. Oh yeah - looks like my partition tables got screwed up, somehow, after running the installation package. Rebuilt them once which led to XP being unbootable, but I'll try again... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeguy Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Guess I had better luck than you did. I got as far as the single user reboot into 10.4.4 but after loading some kexts, I ended up with a blank screen. Wondering whether that has anything to do with using 10.4.1 kexts for PS2Controller and IOATAFamily. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invader J Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Yeah, I tried moving around my partitions a bit - my XP C: drive is right out front where OS X really should be... I have it a buffer zone of 500MB unformatted space before and after it thinking that might help - but nope, went through the whole process again and sure enough, "Operating system not found"! I'm going to start from scratch and put my C: partition on the tail end (hopefully with XP it'll boot ok!) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haze Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 I figured out a way to install 10.4.4 using a 10.4.1 system. This should work vmware or native! What I have: 10.4.1 (Deadmoo Image) running on VmWare 5.5 Original mach_kernel Original CoreGraphics What you need to do: Follow all of Maxxuss's instructions up to the point where you double click on the OSInstall.mpkg file to run the installation. Step 1: Right click on OSInstall.mpkg file Step 2: Select 'Show package contents' Step 3: Drag and Drop the "Contents" folder into the top level directory with the rest of the packages Step 4: Open the newly moved "Contents" folder and double click OSInstall.dist Step 5: Continue Maxuss's instructions And thats it! I would like to hear from the rest of you 10.4.1'ers to see if this works reliably. Thanks, Haze Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invader J Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Haze - what I did was followed Max's instructions (including GMA900 chipset hacks, etc) but I modified the OSInstall package by removing the hardware-checking Plugin folder, and it _seems_ to work like a charm as long as I don't install the bundled applications - I can do those later, I'll post details of the hack so that it doesn't tell you your machine is unsupported. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58740 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 Well, you guys are having more luck than I have.... I tried Invader's way, removing the plugins folder, and It brought up the instalation... Then, when it starts to write the files, I get weeguys problem: Feb 20 09:43:56 wees-computer : preinstall[422]: /Users/wee/Desktop/Packages/BaseSystem.pkg/Contents/Resources/preinstall: line 22: /Users/wee/Desktop/Packages/BaseSystem.pkg/../OSInstall.mpkg/Contents/Resources/ConfMigrator: Bad executable (or shared library) I have copied the Packages folder to a top-level drive... Once copied, do I need to delete the folder of the Restore Disc or something? @Haze, when I get back today, I'll check out your guide Maybe we can get a proper installation process that's guranteed to work.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeguy Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Invader J: just a quick check, are you installing 10.4.4 on a primary partition? I believe OSX doesn't like to be on an extended partition. (and i just became an Apple Newton... haha..) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-58804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 Ok, I'm not making any progess! I've tried weeguy's way of moving the packages folder to a non-top level directory - no go. I've tried Haze's way of copying the Contents folder into the Packages folder - no go. I keep getting the " ConfMigrator: Bad executable (or shared library) " problem... Please help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-59002 Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeguy Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 SABR: I realised the ConfMigrator error isn't preventing the installation. I managed to complete the installation and saw these errors present in my install log as well, which goes to show that the ConfMigrator errors aren't too critical. There's probably something else you missed in the instructions. As for myself, I'm still stuck with the black screen while attempting to boot 10.4.4 into single user mode. Can't figure out a way to get around it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-59010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 SABR: I realised the ConfMigrator error isn't preventing the installation. I managed to complete the installation and saw these errors present in my install log as well, which goes to show that the ConfMigrator errors aren't too critical. There's probably something else you missed in the instructions. As for myself, I'm still stuck with the black screen while attempting to boot 10.4.4 into single user mode. Can't figure out a way to get around it. THANKS WEEGUY!! You made me realise I had forgot to edit the Info.plist file in the BaseSystem.pkg... It's installaing onto a vmware disk image I made... If that boots up, I'm going to do a restore disc onto a native drive on my PC. I'll let you know how I get on... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-59025 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 Hmmm... Ok, after trying to boot up the VMWare Disk in, well, VMware it comes up with "b0 error"... any ideas? NEVERMIND - I got it to boot in single user mode... currently applying patches, etc... Following Maxx's guide Post-installation... I'll let you guys know what happens... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-59051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 Well, weeguy, I'm up to the same stage as you... I type "-s" and it loads up loads of kexts, and then I get a blank screen... I've a feeling, as you do, about it being from the kext's of 10.4.1. We need to try it with 10.4.3 kexts... I'm searching for them right now... But if anyone out there could be kind enough to upload their ApplePS2Controller.kext and IOATAFamily.kext here, I'd be extremely grateful. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-59229 Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeguy Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 SABR: so you've managed to get beyond the blank screen? Do tell how you managed to do that Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9350-1041-to-1044-possible/#findComment-59321 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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