So I waited until the last minute to do the Leopard Up-to-Date program for my mac mini. One because the dang website wouldn’t recognize my mini’s serial number since December (and never did, they made me fill out the manual form — no phone orders!), but also because I wanted to make sure I got newer media. Unfortunately 10.5.2 is still in the oven, but 10.5.1 fixes this annoying bug in Disk Utility:
“Unable to create “filename“. (Read-only file system)
This would happen when you attempted to make a disk image of your hard drive and save it to another device (like an external drive), it said it was read only. I tried going through Terminal running mount -uw /Volumes/volumename to make sure it was read/write it would still balk in Disk Utility. And this was a useful thing to do before, say, upgrading to a new OS or just saving a machine image for restore/deployment like I do at work. Not a big deal since I could use a retail Tiger disc (for PPC machines) or the 10.4 (intel) install media that came with the intel machines to make backups, but I really wanted to get a Universal disc that could boot Intel and PPC and do what I wanted it to do.
Well, 10.5.1 fixes this. If you have a 10.5.0 disc, it ain’t gonna work. I was considering taking my 10.5.0 media back for an exchange, but I expensed it for work and the finance dept. has swallowed up my receipt (in a box in a warehouse Indiana Jones style, I’m sure) and I didn’t get it emailed to me as they usually do, but I think they were in a bit of a hurry since I got it on release day. C’est la vie. Besides what I really want is a 10.5.2 DVD anyway… this will be a keeper. The version that should have come out as 10.5.0 but you know they had to hit that Holiday shopping window.
b, do you think apple will distribute a DVD with 10.5.2 (or make it a download iso or dmg) gratis or with minimal charge?
slmandr
Oh heck no they wouldn’t ever do that! Gratis? Sans gratis! (I have no sense of latin grammar.) If anything they’d give you some way to do it from the command line, like
sudo asr -source /Volumes/Source -target /Volumes/Backupwhich Apple say you can do while the system is booted (but I still don’t believe it!) although it’s not a tidy disk image. Perhaps in conjunction with hdiutil?Apple forcing users – even administrators – to a command line? I’m going back to Windows. ;)
‘The version that should have come out as 10.5.0 but you know they had to hit that Holiday shopping window.’
Too right. But we haven’t seen it yet. None of the chickens have hatched so it’s too early yet to count – ancient Siamese proverb.