help with firmware upgrade
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| i hate to ask this, but heres my plight. i need to upgrade the firmware on my new/used Mac. it came with 10.0.2 installed (of which i upgraded to 10.0.4) and no disks. i purchased official OS 10.3 to install on it, but 10.3 wont install until i upgrade the firmware. i cant upgrade the firmware though, unless i have classic installed. since i dont have classic installed and i dont have the original 10.0 disks, then i cant install the firmware. so... im in a bind unless i want to fork up $35 for OS9 and more time waiting. i have read though, that if i copy an OS9 system folder to the Mac HD, then i can run the firmware update. so... would someone be willing to "lend" me an OS9 system folder that i can copy onto my Mac so that i can update the firmware? or, does any knowledable Mac user out there know a better answer for me? thank you. |
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| Gman - I sent you an email with how to go about doing this: It's outlined in this link anyhow: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021014054815580 Note the OS9General.dmg file on your 10.3 disk, that's the directory you're looking for, however I believe for the firmware upgrade to work you'll need to create & boot onto a writable OS 8.3.1 or above partition (as instructed by Apple at the bottom of this document). http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58374 Hope it works out for you - I'll looking forward to the osx version of irrlicht - you're a champ! -R |
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| wow! sounds very promising. cant thank you enough for the info :) now i have 5 more hours till i can actually try it out :( |
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| If you get irrlich running for OSX then it's me that should be thanking you ;-) Happy to help. |
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| its a no-go :( i dont see the mentioned image anywhere on my disks. i checked all 3 CDs and nothing. grrr :| |
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| k. i gave in and have Mac OS9 on the way. estimated delivery is monday. |
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| That's no good, try these two articles to see if they help: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107383 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106294 |
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| when you have enough friends... i finally went through my list of local friends far enough to find a guy with a Mac OS9 install and he just dropped it off (im stuck at work today). wooohooo! should be able to finally install the firmware upgrade and if i dont destory my iMac in the process i should finally be able to install 10.3 and give this girl a whirl! |
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| just a little more info on this for archival purposes... the firmware update did require a full install of Mac OS9 and that i startup OS9 before i ran the firmware update. |
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