OPTIONAL INSTALLS ON LEOPARD DISK

What are the optional installs on the Leopard installation DVD, and should I install them?
Thanks

Rex Oppenheimer wrote:
What are the optional installs on the Leopard installation DVD, and should I install them?
Thanks
Do you mean the Optional stuff in the disk Folders after installing?
Or the option choices at the beginning of the install?
There are things like X11 tools and other developer item on the disks that are not usually installed but can be at a later date. In general if you don't know about them you don't need them. But there is a whole other world in there under X11 if you are interested. I would google first, though, to see what you are getting into.
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Optional Installs for Snow Leopard

After completing the installation of Snow Leopard, I noticed the "Optional Installs" folder on the disc and opened the Optional Install.mpkg. Under applications it lists Address Book, Mail, iTunes, iChat, etc. Does this mean they were not installed and I'm still using the Leopard versions, or were any new updates installed and they are there in case you need to reinstall? I just want to make sure I'm running the "latest & greatest" of everything. So the question is whether I need to do anything with these or if as long as I went through the normal update process I'm all good. Thank you.

Redmen34 wrote:
After completing the installation of Snow Leopard, I noticed the "Optional Installs" folder on the disc and opened the Optional Install.mpkg. Under applications it lists Address Book, Mail, iTunes, iChat, etc. Does this mean they were not installed
no. it means that you could have chosen not to install them during the SL installation by pressing the "custom" button on one of the installer screens. but all those apps are installed by default if you didn't customize your installation. you don't have to do anything.
and I'm still using the Leopard versions, or were any new updates installed and they are there in case you need to reinstall? I just want to make sure I'm running the "latest & greatest" of everything. So the question is whether I need to do anything with these or if as long as I went through the normal update process I'm all good. Thank you.

Tiger and Leopard disk utilities/installer incompatible

I have a MacBook2 that came with 10.4 Tiger pre-installed and a 10.5 Leopard upgrade disk that is labelled "CPU drop-in DVD".
It also has a 10.4 Tiger "Mac OS X Install Disk 1" (and Disk 2) labelled "For Mac Computers" (not MacBook Specific?).
The problem I am now faced with is that the Disk Utility (and disk mounting/recognition) systems are incompatible.
I recently had my second 120 GB Fujitsu drive (first was an 80 GB) fail. The 80 GB was replaced by Apple warranty, and since there were no longer any drives that small then, the 120 GB was substituted, by them, to repair it. They reinstalled Leopard 10.5 on the machine, off some disk of theirs.
Since nobody makes drives this small anymore, the drive I bought to replace the failed 120 Gb is a 320 GB "WDC WD3200BPVT-00HXZT1".
All went well usung the familiar 10.5 Leopard Disk Utility on the "CPU drop-in DVD" in formatting and partitioning the new 320Gb WD drive, but the "CPU drop-in DVD" requires that OS X 10.4 Tiger be pre-installed on the drive for it to then upgrade it. I have properly installed the drive, partitoned/erased and tested the 320 GB Western Digital drive. In Firewire target mode on the MacBook (from my IMac) the new drive and MacBook's Serial ATA I/O systems work perfectly.
So I went to the originally supplied 10.4 Tiger "Mac OS X Install Disk 1" to re-install an old, basic Tiger system to it from, right?
Wrong!
The 10.4 Tiger "Mac OS X Install Disk 1" has a foreign and incompatible disk mounting system that totally fails to recognize the GUID partition, extended, journalled volume and correct drive hardware type. It fatally and mistakenly mis-identifies the new drive hardware as a "2.3 TB" media with the same WD product model number and shows it's volume as a grayed-out BSD "disk0s1" identifier that cannot be re-partitioned, repaired nor mounted. It first claims that "Disk Utility has lost it's connection the Disk Management Tool" - "relaunch Disk Utility" and/or thereafter just reports "Disk I/O Error".
The Tiger Os X Installer disk's primitive Disk Management Tool (Information) holds the grossly mistaken and erroneous opinion that the new 320 GB WD drive is a 2.3 TB-capacity media that uses an "FDisk_partition_scheme", and thus, needless to say and regardless of any length of patience this drive never appears in the "Select a Destination" dialog.
Since it's old "Tiger" Disk Utility cannot properly identify the drive, and I onlly use the teenie MacBook occasionally as a portable, miniature web-browser/email reader, MagicJack host or to play DVDs or listen to internat radio and have no Time Maxchine backup of the nothing of value I ever keep stored on it, it is now impossible for me to reinstall OS X of any flavor on my MacBook.
Anyone have any idea of how to re-educate it?

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
G5s can run specific versions of 10.4 depending on age.
Read the serial number (do not post it here) to determine the age by going to Apple menu -> About This Mac -> More info -> Hardware. The serial number consists of these initial components:
2 alphanumeric characters for factory code.
1 number for the year.
2 numbers for the week of the year.
Thus W80410 is the 10th week of 2004.
Running any spreadsheet with consecutive date cells adding 7 to consecutive cells will give you the week of the year for any year, if you start with 01/01/year and give out the actual date of that year.
As long as your G5 was made:
Before April 8 2005, it can run any version of Tiger retail which looks like * and does not say Update, Dropin, or OEM.
April 8 to April 28, 2005 it can run the Update installer as well to install 10.4
April 29, to October 30, 2005 it can only run the retail installer which looks like above and has 10.4.3 or 10.4.6 on it, or the PowerMac G5 installer disc which came with it to install 10.4
October 31, 2005 to April 2, 2006, it can only run the retail installer which looks like above and has 10.4.6 on it, or the PowerMac G5 installer disc which came with it to install 10.4.
April 3, 2006 and later PowerMac G5s can only use the PowerMac G5 installer disc which came with them to install 10.4
Given those limitations, yes, you can install 10.4 on one hard drive, and 10.5 on another. 10.5 also requires a minimum of 512 MB of RAM, and at least 9 GB of hard disk in addition to approximately 15% of the hard disc empty (based on arbitrary estimates). 10.4 will install with 5GB + 15% (based on arbitrary estimates) free. These amounts are unique to each hard drive.
Note 10.5 has no Classic support.
G5s can't boot Mac OS 9, but can use Classic from the original installer discs that shipped wtih them, when booted into 10.4.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

Mac Keep Ejects Installation Media, Hard disk is empty, How to install OSX

I installed Ubuntu in my Mac Mini, Later my apple wireless keyboards pairing is not working and to pair i need to have OS X installed, since no osx installed, to boot i used to press the option key. So now I formated linux, now my hard disk is empty no partition or nothing. But the problem is my mac mini keeps ejecting OS X installation media (original dvd set came with mac mini) but I can boot from ubuntu live cd. How can I solve this problem. Some one told me to reset my pram, but I was unable to do it. Pressing Command Option P R does nothing. Please help me out. without my machine working I'm like a dead man.

Yeah I managed to get one, and tried c key to boot from the disk. It doesn't work. The current status of my machine is. My hard drive is clean (unpartitioned space, I formated it). Still Mac Ejects OS X installation media which came with the mac mini, But I can boot using Ubuntu,Solaris,etc disks and I can install them. How can I install OS X in this situation. Since I'm doing my PG course in Computer Science, the system is an urgent stuff for me.. Please help me out.
And why mac is ejecting the actual original installation media even when it's taking all other disks ?? I tried two different disks to make sure if it's the trouble of the disk, but that's not the case. I only ejects OS X disks and ejects all OSX Disks (i tried tiger disk, and leopard disk)
Deepak

Leopard Disk Utility and Input/Output error messages.

This post is describing a problem I had and how I managed to fix it. When I was researching the Input/Output error message I was getting a couple of people had mentioned this fix on the apple discussion boards, so I thought I would add my fix to support them. (Isn't google fab!) I've no idea if this is the right place for this so please bear with me.
Okay a bit of background:- over christmas we treated ourselves to leopard and as my laptop is now three years old I decided to do a complete reformat and installation. I used my 60GB iPod as an external harddrive and backed everything up. Installed Leopard no probs and was a very happy bunny.
The problem:- I then wanted to remove everything off my iPod. So I thought "I know I'll use Disk Utility".... I tried it with the 'default' setting and got an Input/Output error message straight away (irrespective of whether I did it as an extended journal or not.) When I tried it with the Zero Out option (can't remember exactly what it's called) it came up with the Input/Output error message right at the very end. Argh! iTunes and Finder no longer recognised it, but Disk Utility did.
My research:- After using google I saw some guys on here talking about formatting proper external harddrives using leopards disk utility and they were getting the same messages as me. It turns out it is a fault with Leopards Disk Utility. So I did what the guys recommended.
The solution:- (Thank god I had tiger!) I put in my tiger installation disk, clicked 'install tiger' and restarted the laptop. I clicked my my language, but then rather than going through the actual installation process I went to the top menu bars and chose Disk Utility (using tiger's disk one rather than my laptop's leopard one.) And erased the iPod there. Now when I quit the installation and opened my laptop up properly it worked, both iTunes and finder could see it!!! (I just had to restore my ipod in itunes - and now I'm happily transferring all my music back!)
I hope this helps someone in the same position as me!

I took it to work to use my Windows PC to try and format the drive, but got the same problem. I figured either the drive (it's a 2.5" that used to be inside my AlBook) or the external housing it lives is was faulty. Only way I could test without spending more money is by putting the 2.5" drive inside my powerbook, and booting the (Ti) powerbook from a bootable firewire ipod. I successfully booted from the ipod, and had the same problem with the now internal drive: only visible in disk utility, any attempt to erase fails. Also, I plugged the small 10 GB drive that WAS in the TiBook (but which I removed to put the other, problematic drive in) into the external housing, and it connected to other machines just fine.
Turns out the problem is the hard drive itself.
So now my question becomes: If disk utility can see the hard disk when it is connected (I have it back in the external enclosure now), but gives "input/output error" messages when I try to erase/format it, is there any way I can salvage this drive? It's an 80 GB drive, and I was looking forward to making it my internal TiBook drive (replacing the old 10 GB drive that's in there now).

G5 Ignoring leopard disk!

Hi,
I recently had to reinstall my system after it totally crashed (no fault of the system, i was testing software to put on my new laptop and one of the things went bad)
At reinstall it would not boot from leopard, so I reinstalled tiger. That is now fully updated and set up but I cant use my files because they are in iLife 09 format that needs leopard.
When I put the leopard disk in the first time it came up and i clicked install, it it tried to boot from the leopard disk and then ejected and booted from my hdd. Now it just ignores the disk, I have two leopard disks and both do the same thing, I installed leopard on this computer two years ago so why does it now work now, and how can I fix it.

1) Have you cleaned your DVD drive? sometimes if your laser lens is really dirty it won't read/write properly. I have definitely had this happen during re-installs with retail discs. They cost about 10 bucks, I generally keep several of them around. Sometimes they don't work in certain computers/disc drives, so I hope you have one that works (by works, I mean, you can insert the disc, and the drive will read it, instead of just ejecting it). Sometimes I've had to perform 2 cleanings in a row (really dirty lens). It could also be a drive failure (Don't expect your original optical drive to last indefinitely, they spin at over one hundred mph generally).
Also, the disc could be scratched or dirty? Water and microfiber will get the nastiest boogers off of optical media.
2) try inserting the disc, performing a normal restart from the  menu, then holding down the OPTION key during startup. See if the disc shows up there.
Also,
Grant's points are valid, except, if you backup your leopard disc to a DVD-R DL disc, then it will still work. Might not work with a DVD+R DL disc. I generally think it's fair to backup such pricy discs, as they do get scratched, like any other (install) disc.

Clean MacBook HD with Snow Leopard Disk?

I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro and want to give my 2+ year old MacBook (first gen aluminum, shipped with Leopard and upgraded to Snow Leopard) to a friend.
Can I clean the MacBook hard drive with a retail Snow Leopard disk or must I use the original Leopard disk that came shipped with the MacBook?
I'm asking because I cannot seem to find the original disks but I do have the Snow Leopard package.
I want to get rid of all photos, email, documents, etc. Basically my user account. Will it be possible to do this from the Snow Leopard disk?
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Boot from the OS X Installer Disc One that came with the computer. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select the startup volume from the left side list then click on the Erase tab. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) then click on the Options button. Select the one pass Zero Data option and click on the OK button. Then click on the Erase button.
Note: You can skip the Zero Data option if you are not concerned about removing sensitive personal data from the hard drive. If you choose to skip this part of the process then it is possible for others to recover data from the hard drive. The Zero Data procedure will prevent others from getting access to your personal information.
This process will take 30 minutes to several hours depending upon the size of the hard drive. After formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Now complete the OS X installation. At the completion of the installation do not restart the computer. Instead just shut it off. The next user will be presented with the Setup Assistant when they turn on the computer just as it would if new out of the box.
You can do this using the Snow Leopard DVD. Be sure to include the DVD with the computer. However, without the original discs that came with the computer the next user will not have access to the Apple Hardware Test dianostics or the ability to restore iLife.

Did custom install of iLife from Leopard disk, want to install the rest.

When I bought my macbookpro a couple of years ago, it was supposed to have Leopard but didn't, so the Apple Store gave me a Leopard install disk. I installed Leopard (not an upgrade, an actual fresh install) but I guess I did a custom installation and didn't install all of the iLife apps (like iMovie).
Now I want to install those apps, but when I get into the installation process, it looks like I may have to either archive the entire OS and reinstall or install all of the iLife apps. Is there a way to just install the uninstalled apps?
My Leopard disk is 10.5.1, but the current version on my computer is 10.5.8, I suppose due to periodic upgrades.
Thanks!
Mollie
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Don't boot up from your original install disc. Instead, insert it, and browse it with Finder. You should see a "optional install software" or some similar looking thing (I can't remember its exact title). That's what you want to use to install iLife without reinstalling the whole system.

Can't boot to anything but Leopard or Leopard disk

Hi guys, hopefully somebody has the same problem and has solved it. But I've got a 2007 iMac (2.4 GHz, 24 in) and I have been desperately trying to get boot camp to work. I've used boot camp many times on other machines.
No matter what, I can NEVER boot to anything other than the Leopard partition or the Leopard disk. When I run boot camp and it attempts to start the Windows installer, it stops after the restart on a blank screen. When I try to manually boot to an installer (tried XP, Vista, Ubuntu Live CD) by holding the Option key, the minute I choose the disk it just freezes with both icons on screen. I even tried cloning the Windows partition from my Macbook and restoring it to a boot camp partition on my iMac using Winclone, and when I try to boot to it I get the same freezing.
Anybody else have this problem? Searching the forums I can't find anybody with the same issue. Others have similar problems, but nothing failing at the same point as me.

Repaired the internal disk drive?
Does it show as one partition? or more?
Do you have a backup? Restore back to one HFS+ partition.
When you restore from WinClone, you first I think have to boot from Windows CD - or did in the past, to repair the boot manager.
Most people that interrupt Boot Camp Assistant and install DO have trouble and have lost ability to do anything more.

How To Tell If You Have Optional Installs ALREADY Installed?

Just got a new 21.5-inch iMac with Snow Leopard already installed. Is there any way of determining if any of the Snow Leopard Optional Installs are installed on your system?
For example, how can I tell if I have Rosetta already installed or some of the Language Translations?
Is there any way to remove any Optional Installs without completing wiping and re-installing Snow Leopard?

Just the default install does not contain any optional.
Rosetta is not installed by default, however if you open an application that requires rosetta your Mac will prompt you to install it (and do it for you).
You can remove all printers except the one(s) you use in /Library/Printers.
You can also remove additional languages with Monolingual
-mj
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Can I repair a Snow Leopard disk from a Tiger machine?

I had the hard drive go down on a MacPro with an Intel processor running OS 10.6.4. When I try to boot, it gets to the Apple screen and shuts down. Running the disk utility from the installation disk gives me the error:
Checking HFS Plus Volume
Invalid Extent Entry
Volume Check Failed
I pulled the drive and connected it with a USB adapter to a spare Mac G5 with a PowerPC processor running Tiger 10.4.11. I can read the disk on the G5 with Tiger. Disk utility on the G5 gives me the same error when trying to repair the disk.
Are there any utilities out there I can run on Tiger to repair the Snow Leopard disk? Free if possible?
Or a good OSX utility that will let me image the drive to another hard drive? This is a production machine in a printing environment and I need to get it back up and running as soon as possible.
Thx...
Carvelli

I could not repair the disk from the command line either. It gave me the same error messages. I did not try Carbon Copy Cloner...yet. I had an extra 250GB drive which I re-installed 10.6.4.
I can bring up the old drive on the USB adapter, so I am going to try the Mac Migration Assistant. Which I've never done before. Does anyone know if it bring over all the applications during the migration? Or will I have to re-install all the applications over again?
Carvelli

Installing Drivers from Leopard disk

I installed windows and got myself through to the os seemingly ok. I popped in the leopard disk to install the drivers. From here it goes through the autorun process alright and then restarts on its own like it should. When windows loads back up I get one of those generic error reports, and no further drivers install off the "found new hardware" wizard as its described in the boot camp installation guide. Im assuming the drivers havent successfully installed because the os is not recognizing a wireless internet connection and the apple keys (volume, eject, etc.) are not working in windows.
If anyone could help me out that would be fantastic, thanks.

Any luck with this? Seems like I'm having the same issue.

TS3926 OS X Lion: Installer reports "This disk is locked"

Hi , I have a 2011 MBA with 256GB SSD and recently encounted a problem during start up:
1. Got gray screen with Apple logo and the running circle
2. Restart with Option key and ran disk utility. Got "invalid sibling link"... Tried repair disk, cannot be repaired
3. Repeat restart with Option key and try to reinstall Lion. But both Macintosh HD and Recovery HD indicates as "This disk is locked"
Please advise the steps I need to take to get my MBA up and running again... Thanks much.
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I am also haing a same problem.
When I tried to first update Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion on an iMac, I was stuck at 36 mins reamining. Then I tried to reboot, that is also not possible.

HT1338 using the Optional Installs package on your Mac OS X install disc,

How do I use the optional installs package without a disc?

you're question is a bit vague, are you trying to utilize the online OS X installation from the recovery partition? If you wan't to selectively install or re-install various packages there is an applications called Pacifist that enables you to choose packages from the InstallESD.dmg. If you have downloaded the Install Mounatin Lion application, there's several ways of accessing this disk image. The simplest is to click "Go To Folder..." under the Go tab of the finder menu and type the following "/Applications/Install OS X Mountain Lion/Contents/SharedSupport". make a copy of the InstallESD.dmg file and then when prompted by Pacifist select the file.
What exactly are you trying to do? Are you looking for X11/Xquartz? If you give a little more specificity I can probably help you accomplish your objective.

Backup Leopard Disk on Single Layer DVD

I have a leopard disk with the original 10.5.0. I want to make a copy on a single layer disk. I followed the instruction here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/431468/Guide-to-making-a-SLDVD-Leopard-install-disc
Everything works fine without a hitch. After I burn the disk it mounts fine and appears bootable in the startup preference pane, however, when I attempt to boot from it, (by restarting and holding the "C" key or holding the "option" key to select the disk) it does not appear as bootable. If I hold the "C" key it sounds like its scanning the disk, then it just boots from my hard drive. Also, if I hold the "option" key, only my OSX and Windows partitions appear, not the inserted Leopard copy. Please NOTE FOUR things, I want to have this on a disk, so please do not suggest restoring to an EXT HD or flash drive. Also, I have attempted the burning process with Disk Utility and Toast. I am using DVD-R disks and 10.5.7 on a Unibody MacBook Pro
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Since this is not supported by Apple, I suggest you contact whoever published this and ask them why it does not work.
Your self-imposed limitations preclude doing it correctly.

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