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From: Andrew Brydon on 19 May 2010 02:59
Prompted by a recent thread about best free utilities, I D/Led and
fired up Monolingual on an intel Mac Mini. Yes, caveat emptor: didn't
get to some of the small print warnings dotted around the place.

So, in short, how easy/reliable/safe is it to reinstall the PPC
architectures by a repair/install using the original CD?
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Andrew Brydon
Life is just the beta-version of death
From: J. J. Lodder on 19 May 2010 04:56
Andrew Brydon <andrew(a)isbjorn.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Prompted by a recent thread about best free utilities, I D/Led and
> fired up Monolingual on an intel Mac Mini. Yes, caveat emptor: didn't
> get to some of the small print warnings dotted around the place.
>
> So, in short, how easy/reliable/safe is it to reinstall the PPC
> architectures by a repair/install using the original CD?

You can begin with the latest combo updater.
It may do what you want without a reinstall,

Jan
From: David Empson on 19 May 2010 06:05
J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote:

> Andrew Brydon <andrew(a)isbjorn.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Prompted by a recent thread about best free utilities, I D/Led and
> > fired up Monolingual on an intel Mac Mini. Yes, caveat emptor: didn't
> > get to some of the small print warnings dotted around the place.
> >
> > So, in short, how easy/reliable/safe is it to reinstall the PPC
> > architectures by a repair/install using the original CD?
>
> You can begin with the latest combo updater.
> It may do what you want without a reinstall,

No, that would only reinstall the PowerPC code for files which have been
updated since the release of 10.6.0, as that is all the combo update
contains. There are bound to be lots of other files that haven't been
touched.

Andrew is probably going to have to do a full system reinstall.

Not hard - just boot from the DVD, install normally to your existing
drive, then after it starts up, reapply all available updates.

This will do the equivalent of an Archive & Install from previous system
versions, so you may be left without third party software (e.g. drivers)
which was installed in /System. Anything missing can be reinstalled as
you discover it.

--
David Empson
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Martin-S on 19 May 2010 06:46
In article <GNPbgBC3w48LFw22(a)isbjorn.demon.co.uk>,
Andrew Brydon <andrew(a)isbjorn.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Prompted by a recent thread about best free utilities, I D/Led and
> fired up Monolingual on an intel Mac Mini. Yes, caveat emptor: didn't
> get to some of the small print warnings dotted around the place.

I'm curious: what did Monolingual remove/screw up?

--
Martin
From: Tim McNamara on 19 May 2010 19:17
In article <cgzjmthpzs-847B42.10463519052010(a)news.simnet.is>,
Martin-S <cgzjmthpzs(a)lzrpqi.net> wrote:

> In article <GNPbgBC3w48LFw22(a)isbjorn.demon.co.uk>,
> Andrew Brydon <andrew(a)isbjorn.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Prompted by a recent thread about best free utilities, I D/Led and
> > fired up Monolingual on an intel Mac Mini. Yes, caveat emptor: didn't
> > get to some of the small print warnings dotted around the place.
>
> I'm curious: what did Monolingual remove/screw up?

It is possible to remove the language you need (e.g. US English).
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