Problem upgrading from 10.6.4 please help
Hi
My daughter has a 2009 iMac intel. She recently got an iPhone5 and surprise surprise it's not compatible with her OS.
She was on 10.6.4. I ordered Snow Leopard 10.6.8 update v1.1 and she tried installing it. It worked for about 2 hours then said cannot install requires 10.6.5, 10.6.6, 10.6.7 etc updates.
She download all these and when trying to install combo10.6.5 update got this error
error -4960
We repaired disk permissions and followed this (see below) to no avail.
Found this in another thread from the appletoolbox site, given by user 'Chris'
http://appletoolbox.com/2010/04/mac-os-x-10-6-3-fails-to-install/
This worked for me to install 10.6.5 and the file related errors (unidentified format etc.) went away with this. My install used to fail while the image was getting expanded/extracted.
The steps to do (as given in that site) are:
1. Open Terminal (under Applications, Utilities)
2. Type “sudo su” (without quotes)
3. Type your password (you must have admin account)
4. Type “sysctl kern.maxfiles” (this will show you the max open files allowed currently)
5. Type “sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=####” replacing #### with a number much larger than your current maxfiles setting. For example, if your maxfiles is currently 12000 change it to 24000 or maybe 30000.
WHAT CAN WE DO TO GET THE UPDATES TO INSTALL?? And is it possible to just flatten the hard drive and install fresh from the 10.6.8 update v.1.1 DVD?
We would rather just upgrade incremetally if possible to keep all her stuff on the drive.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks!
Nick
Download Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1
You downloaded an incremental updater. You needed the combo updater above. The updaters cannot install a full version of OS X. For that you need the Snow Leopard installer DVD that came with your computer.
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