A friend has just bought a MacBook. I helped him set it up, which is
pretty simple but I could see he needed the help; until now he has used
only Winboxes.
It's running 10.5.2.
First thing I/we did, as you do, was to run Software Update. He wanted
ten items, including Safari 3.1.1 (instead of 3.0.4) and Java and iTunes
and the whole thing... Including Security update 2008-02 (I think it is-
the machine's at his place and I'm now back home).
His ADSL connection, via AOL (don't ask- it works for him) was not
hugely fast, but it all seemed to come down okay except the security
update, which instead of being 55MB or so as announced, went on until it
had downloaded over 100MB. Then the MB restarted, as it should, but
stopped during the installation process. Really stopped. Nothing doing.
So I forced a restart. And it seemed to start okay, except that Safari
was still 3.0.4. So I ran software update again, which now only offered
the security and the Safari updates. I said go, and it clearly ran from
locally downloaded files. Again, the security update failed with no
progress. Restart; this time I just selected Safari update, and it
worked perfectly well.
All that remains is the security update. Which won't install.
It looks like the downloaded update is corrupted in some way. I'll have
to get rid of it, and try again. Where is it stored, and what's it
called?
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Peter
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