OS X 10.2.8 upgrade: my YDL 3 can't boot

[Tim Seufert]

On Nov 2, 2003, at 4:45 AM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:

> On Sunday 02 November 2003 11:34, newsman@verizon.net wrote:
>> I certainly learned my lesson the hard way. I'm also waiting on 
>> Panther.
>> I'll let others be the guinea pigs this time. That said, the first 
>> release
>> of 10.2.8 caused problems for YDL. But the second release (6R73) 
>> should
>> work ok.
>
> I'll install Panther on my G5 as it's very new and there is nothing to 
> break
> as I don't have YDL for G5 yet. I upgraded because 10.2 ist not really
> optimised for the G5 and if I don't upgrade now I'll have to pay the 
> full
> price. But I'm not sure 10.3 will change much on a G3.

10.3 is faster on all machines, not just G5.

As far as updating MacOS X... geez guys, I think you are overreacting a 
little bit.  Everybody has a bad release now and then.  After all, YDL 
had a really bad problem with the 3.0 installer corrupting partition 
tables.  To me, it's a given that any change to either OS may introduce 
problems... they're too complex for it to be otherwise.  So I just 
apply security updates ASAP, even though they can introduce bugs all by 
themselves, and otherwise try to wait and see.  The main problem with 
the MacOS X update model is that the security updates are often 
integrated into a point release rather than available separately.