Where did my Mac OS X 10.2.3 go???

[nels96]

This past weekend, my son-in-law was so good as to install his family licensed Jaguar on to my iMac, on my original unpartitioned hard drive. He then went on a long trip. When I started up on Sunday morning, I first made certain all my OS 9.2  settings were back where I wanted them. Then I went to  Control Panels/Startp Disks and clicked on Mac OS X 10.2.3, and Restart. After the usual chime, all I got was the OS X startup screen with the apple logo, and nothing following that.

After doing that a couple of times, I went to Sherlock to find where the OS X 10.2.3 application was stored. To  my surprise, “no items found” was the only  answer I could get, in spite of the fact that it is listed in my Startup Disks window. I saw  him do the installation, and I am  certain I did not delete it (it is not in the trash).

Rather than wait for him to  return in a couple of weeks, I wonder if any of my good buddies at Techsurvivors could shed any light on what might have happened, and  if it is possible for me to retrieve all the effort he put into trying to bring me in from the pre-Jaguar wilderness.

Thanks, nels96

[daffy]

Did you select "About this Mac" in the toolbar & see what version it shows?

Reading your message, I'm not sure just how you are looking for 10.2.3. You won't see it as an application per se in your applications folder.

I am not addressing the "family licensed Jaguar" thing as this may be another issue.

   
 
 [ 02-17-2003, 05:04 PM: Message edited by: daffy ]

[swhitset]

For anyone curious.. this is from the Apple website about the family pack jaguar  version..  "* Family Pack Software License Agreement allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that same household. By "household" we mean a person or persons sharing the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home or condominium.  This license does not extend to students who reside at a separate on-campus location or to business or commercial users. .. "

As far as searching for the Jaguar installation as an Application.. You won't find it as such.  When you do the restart with Jaguar selected as the startup OS how long are you waiting?  It can sometimes take a long time for the OS to load and doit thing... Sometimes much longer than an OS 9 startup.

[kelly]

nels96. Try running fsck. You may want to print these instructions from OS 9.  

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

Good luck.

[nels96]

Hi Kelly,
After getting  those pages you recommended from Apple Support, and trying several cycles of fsck, I advanced from only a gray apple logo screen to the Login screen. But after logging in, and busily buzzing away for 20 seconds, the login screen returns, blank. I also  tried to startup in Safe Mode, but I never get the Safe Boot screen, only the  Login Screen which  does not login.

i have also tried to search the Apple site to find titles which resemble my problem, but no luck, or maybe I am not using the right search techniques. In any case, thanks for the help so far. I guess I am  gonna  have to wait for my next visit from No.1 son-in-law to reinstall 10.2.3. (Note to Whitset: He swears that the Family Limit is bogus because the CD cannot possibly know how often or where it is being used. He only bought it to be ethical)

By the way, my Control Panel/Startup Disks window has 4 lines (entries) for 10.0.4 which I have no expectation of ever using. How do I go about deleting them?

Thanks again, nels96

[kelly]

nels. While in OS 9.x when I click on the Partition with OS X and it's own OS 9,

I see things listed like, mach, vol, System, mach_kernel, and var.

Do you see that kind of stuff on your machine?

Those are OS X components.

If you want to get rid of it you throw all that stuff in the trash.

If your Start Up Control Panel seems goofy you could try trashing Startup Disk Preferences.

Good luck.

[kps]

Having had 10.0.4 on the machine when Jag was installed, may be the reason the installation went sour. Have you tried booting with the option key down and then sellecting 10.2.x?

You may have to delete all remnants of previous versions and possibly the current Jag install as well and do a complete clean reinstall of 10.2.x. Followed by any upgrades.