jdxxx Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Hey, guys, you are spending hours on a process that could be far easier. Find the torrent of the 10.4.4 Ghost image. It is only about 1.3 GB in size, and installs a working, ready to go system. Took me about hour to get 10.4.4 up and going -- I have been testing it for the last day, and must say I see no real difference from 10.4.3, which works "nearly" perfectly on my P4HT 3.0Ghz no SSE3 box. Look at this link http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...504entry60504 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
labria Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 jdxxx: to point here is upgrading an existing installation without ruining it! PS: Installed 10.4.4 over 4.3 - no performance boost here, maybe even the contrary. I'll see after a reboot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadCow Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 I burned the disk and tried to boot it. Right after the grey Apple logo and spinning circle, it kicks to a command line and scrolls a few lines about thing segfaulting, clears the screen, scrolls more segfaults, clears screen, in a cycle that happens rapidly. Then it sits at an empty command line but won't respond to any input. I have an AMD SSE3 system that worked perfectly with the 10.4.3 bootable DVDs and required no patching besides the minimum protection bypass. Same here :/ AMD SSE3 system, a lot of segfaulting errors and then the command line showing up instead of the install screen Could someone please post a MD5 cheksum of the 10.4.4 restore dvd's dmg or would this be off-rules ? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdxxx Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 I did this with my 10.4.3 partition mounted, and 10.4.4 on a second partition. Nothing ruined, nothing lost. I just dragged all my installed programs over from the 10.4.3 /apps directory and dropped them on 10.4.4 Applications menu, then dragged my documents and download folders over. This included: Toast, Mplayer, Mactheknife, bunch of other video tools and Utilities.... If you have an AMD setup, just install the image to a partition, boot to 10.4.3. The new partition will show up. Copy in the AMD mach_kernel, and copy over your 10.4.3 kext to the new disk /System/Extensions. Use HDutil to fix permissions and verify the 10.4.4 disk. (Mine showed a minor header error that was corrected, probably due to the fact that I installed the image into a larger partition than that of the original ghost image, which BTW works just fine -- obviously the partition must be 21GB, the size of the original ghost imaged partition). Will all take less than an hour. Then boot into 10.4.4, drag over you programs and files from the 10.4.3 This is really the easy way (and I have tried a few). Whole process took me about three hours of messing around, though it booted right up after I put in the proper kernel. BTW, working on a P4HT 3Ghz no SSE3. Everything seems to work (except the new beta of Opera 9b2 is not connecting to the internet for some reason - works fine in 10.4.3) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
labria Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 jdxxx - I've got only one HD to play with here, allmost full, so upgrading was the best option. Well, 10.4.4 is here. Now we need a solution to install 10.4.5 over it PS: Ppl, dont forget to update the wiki with your working/not working hardware list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrunix Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 No improvement. Fan speed awfully high. And lost of Flash stability with Safari(or Shiira). Deep Park or Camino working fine instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stelriah Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 insteading of seeding the patched dvd, why not just seed a ppf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairaghi Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 So, no one downloaded and tried the 3.3 Gb DVD image ? I would prefer a clean installation instead to play with partitions.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrunix Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 So, no one downloaded and tried the 3.3 Gb DVD image ? I would prefer a clean installation instead to play with partitions.. Be patient. I'm on. I let you know. insteading of seeding the patched dvd, why not just seed a ppf? Because Maxxuss is out for the moment and he used to rely on JaS from Win2osx for PPF but the site is out too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philter Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Just and update here, I said I was going to try a fresh install, I did and it worked just as well as the upgrade. The 4 kext errors were still present, and repairing them as I posted earlier worked. There is a 3.3 Go 10.4.4 DVD at Demonoid's : This dvd is a generic install dvd for Mac OSX 10.4.4. It will work on your computer as long as you have SSE2 or SSE3 as well as PAE. NX is not a requirement to get this dvd to work. However, after installing this, you still need to boot into single user mode and apply the patches by Maxxuss for AMD processors to work with this. I can not tell you where to get these patches, as i dont know where they are. That should be everything, if there's any other question's, feel free to use the almighty Google to find the answer's. Just so people won't be confused, if you run the install script that is the subject of this thread, you will not have to do those single user mode patches afterwards. People will have to decide which way they'd rather do it, both require downloading large amounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenVa Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Is it possible to add the 10.4.3 kexts into the patched dvd? How would one go about doing this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cridiron Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Does anyone know if it's possible to install the patch to the DVD on a windows machine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 How to add the 10.4.3 kexts into the patched dvd need help here plz !!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasepsilon Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 just as a sidenote: did a upgrade from 1099, and it worked perfectly (though the script above did print some strange errors at the end). only thing to do was do repair disk permissions, and chmod the ac97.kext. setup here is celeron sse3+pae+nx/i915g. up to now: no problems seen. xbench is about the same as before.. script=great stuff.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Hmm, I have a problem when trying to boot the DVD. It just comes up with "Boot from CD:" and then all I hear is the drive "revving" the CD... I was waiting for about 5 minutes, and nothing showed up... Am I just being impatient, or...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomist Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 System tried: Dell Inspiron 600m IBM Thinkpad T40 I get the following error when I put in the CD: "This hardware configuration is not supported by Darwin/x86. (3)" I applied the patch using a Powerbook G4. The patch was all successfull (as I can tell). Took about 15-20 minutes for the patch to finish. Any ideas on how to get this booting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philter Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Hmm, I have a problem when trying to boot the DVD. It just comes up with "Boot from CD:" and then all I hear is the drive "revving" the CD... I was waiting for about 5 minutes, and nothing showed up... Am I just being impatient, or...? Can take a while to load up for some reason, took mine about 10 minutes...others more. Once it loads, it installs in normal time though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intrax Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Too bad... tried the patcher but the resulting iso doesn't boot on my AMD Athlon 64. Error: 'this hardware configuration is not supported by Darwin'. So it seems the Darwin bootloader doesn't run on my hardware ! Following Maxxuss instructons for the 10.4.4 install the installation also breaks at 'installing regional boot'. Anybody having same problems ???, seems I'm kinda stuck here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beejay Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Burnt a DVD using this patch. DVD booted ok (but took quite a long time - like 20 minutes or so). Told me to reboot and then it asked me to insert Disc 2. I don't recall there's a disc 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
386dx Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Maybe someone could torrent the 10.4.4 patched iso on the p.......bay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Can take a while to load up for some reason, took mine about 10 minutes...others more. Once it loads, it installs in normal time though. I left it for 45 minutes, still didn't boot up... My system specs: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Skt 939) DFI Ulrat-Infinity nF4 1024 MB RAM (2x 512) I just dont get why it aint bootin' up... :pirate2: EDIT: Do you think it's becuase I made the ISO undr a 10.4.1 environment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sudar Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 I left it for 45 minutes, still didn't boot up... My system specs: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Skt 939) DFI Ulrat-Infinity nF4 1024 MB RAM (2x 512) I just dont get why it aint bootin' up... :pirate2: Using -v at startup prompt will show you the overall progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Using -v at startup prompt will show you the overall progress. I can't even get to that stage.... I select to boot from my DVD Drive, and it comes up with "Boot from CD: _" and that's it. I hear the drive spinning the disc, I left it for 45 minutes, and it won't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenVa Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Try to build the patch dmg again... then compare the image's md5 sums... if they are the same compare you md5 with someone who's image was built on a 10.4.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Try to build the patch dmg again... then compare the image's md5 sums... if they are the same compare you md5 with someone who's image was built on a 10.4.3 Don't worry... I found the source of the problem... A reply on a pirate bay for the file I was using said this: hi guys, you can spare the download, since that patcher dont work! it creates ISO´s with corrupt content. Where are you lot all getting it from? (yes, I know you can't give me a direct link, but are you getting it from thepiratebay?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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