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Upgrading Advent 4211 / Wind from 10.5.4 to 10.5.5

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Vanseb

Nov 7 2008, 22:27

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Hi everybody.

Many thanks for this short information topic, and for the topic about the installation on a Wind.

Here I give my experience with the 10.5.5 update.
Doesn't work

The problem is simple ; everything seems to be allright, bu after the reboot, I have no finder... If I relaunch it, nothing appends. After watching the restart box, I saw the Finder process reboot, without command from me.
I'll try three installations, a few modifications by removing kext, disk repair, but the problem is the same. I precise the computer is a Medion E1210.

For the moment I'll stay with 10.5.4, I'll try later a new installation, maybe 10.5.3 to 10.5.5

Have a nice day !
Sébastien.

johnwin

Mar 20 2009, 21:18

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Paul,

Works like a charm - just need the bump to 10.5.6 now!

I only got my Advent 4211 yesterday, within 5 mins I had the extra 1gb ram in and an hour later my Hackingtosh was done.

Only £199 fort he netbook, £10 for the ram and no need for a new wifi card thanks to the native drivers I found here also.

A Mac Netbook for £209 + OS X

I'm a very happy bunny :^)

This post has been edited by johnwin: Mar 20 2009, 21:19

E=mc²

Apr 11 2009, 11:39

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Spot on once again Paul, there was a little worry when it restarted before I got into the OS, then got a Kernel panic style dialogue the next boot, but third time's the charm! Reinstalled all the kexts to be safe, and I'm away.

Much like johnwin; Refurbed 4211 for ~£200, RAM for £10 and OSX (I'll also be buying a copy of Snow Leopard when it's released) which will be ~£80. Not a bad little machine!

redboy33

Jun 12 2009, 17:21

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QUOTE(dan-k @ Sep 18 2008, 08:34)

Which kexts need to be re-installed? All or just the GMA950?

I loaded the GMA950 and rebooted. The system hangs during boot. I can boot into safe mode, so I repaired permissions to see if that would help clear the hang. No good. System still hangs.

Any ideas ?

Thanks

Ok, The upgrade to 10.5.5 worked and like everyone else I only had 800 X 600 so I ONLY reinstalled the GMA950 kext.

Rebooted and system hung on the gray apple logo screen, the cursor would change from a black pointer to a color pinwheel. I let this go on for about 5 mintes before giving up.

I rebooted into safe mode (use -x at the boot: prompt) and, like asae, reinstalled:

- gma950
- appleintelframebuffer
- clamshelldisplay

rebooted and I am again in 1024 X 600 mode.

battery indicator is working
photo booth works (but cuts the bottom off @ 1024 X 600? Anyone know a fix for this?)

So the upgrade is not as straightforward for some (like me) but isn't that hard to fix..

Funny, the whole reason I upgraded to 10.5.5 is so my audio out jack would work. The wind speakers aren't that loud so I like to use headphones or speakers... I'll repost when I get around to trying out the auido out jack.

Thanks again for everyone's help!

davehobbs1

Jun 16 2009, 11:27

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Hello there paul, i'm new here so be gentle!

I'm about to try and get os:x going on my Advent 4211 and would like to know if installing from scratch (as i am) would i begin the steps you've listed in this thread here after step 38 in your main guide?

36. When you have booted back into OSX, insert the disk containing the 10.5.4 delta update.
37. Double click the 'MacOSXUpd10.5.4.dmg' to mount the image.
38. After the image has mounted, run 'MacOSXUpd10.5.4.pkg' and step through the installation process. Restart when prompted.

if so do i restart first after getting to 10.5.4 or do i start installing 10.5.5 straight after 10.5.4 is finished?

also if you or anyone else reading this knows of any solutions to the audio jack problem and the wificard problems you listed in your main guide i'd very much appreciate it, thanks

like i said i'm new to all this and this is my first go at installing leopard on my machine

fliedrice

Jun 25 2009, 14:37

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hi i need some help. i have installed mac os 10.4.8. it was installed grand but i open the applications or open kext files. i need to know how because i have no sound or video and i cant get onto the internet either so could you please help me

thanks

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