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okay this is what happened..
yesterday I connected my iPod Nano (4GB) to my G4 Dual and the system said there was an update for my iPod...
so I did so...
but then later on when I was listening to a track my iPod just simply froze and is stuck with a screen saying "Now Playing". (I have posted over at the iPod discussions)
so then I connected the iPod to my computer again but it did not show up at all. and I thought I had to upgrade my iTunes to 7.2.
I choose the systems software update and it found the iTunes update + the 10.4.10 comboupdate too. and I forgot to unmark the 10.4.10 (I wanted to keep my 10.4.7 because it was working fine) so it started to install but after it had installed iTunes it aborted the 10.4.10 for some reason and the .pkg ended up in my Trash. however I could not empty trash so I restarted my Mac... but it gets stuck with the blue screen and silvergrey box saying Mac OS X.
I have run DiskWarrior 3.0.3 and TechToolPro 4
and also tried:
SHIFT + CTRL + OPTION and pressing Power
COMMAND + OPTION + O + F
reset-nvram (return)
set-defaults (return)
reset-all (return)
but I am still stuck.
what can I do now?
should I delete iTunes?
I have two HD's on this G4 so I am writing this on my other HD running OSX Jaguar. So I can see the files on the other HD with Mac OSX Tiger
I also have a Powerbook G4 with Tiger.
can I update from this with a firewireconnection and COMMAND + T ?
if so... how am I supposed to do it right?!?!
(1) connect with firewire
(2) start my G4 Dual
(3) start my Powerbook with COMMAND + T
or
(1) connect with firewire
(2) start my Powerbook
(3) start my G4 Dual with COMMAND + T
.
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