New Leopard freezes everything.

Hi,
I was curious if anyone possible has run into this before.
I'm running a dual 1.8 powerpc desktop G5 and decided recently to upgrade to leopard.
So I purchased it, installed it and all went smoothly. But then I realized that my wacom wasn't working so after messing around I downloaded the driver and went to install it and just end up getting the pinwheel forever. So then I figure I must need to run software updates, so I try to download them and I get the pinwheel before I can even get to the download. So I bypass the built in software update and get the bundle patch directly from apple.com and once again as soon as i start uploading it...pinwheel.
So after a few days I've decided that leopard may not be for me so I grabbed my old cds, and sure enough as soon as I try to install my old os x...pinwheel.
I'm really at a loss here, I would appreciate any help at all...I can't seem to find anything about this anywhere and it seems now that I'm stuck with a non-operating system.

-Matt

Have you updated to 10.5.2? I did and I am fooling with my laser mouse now. Odd things - remember to fix permissions as the first line of defense.

I've tried but I get the pinwheel as soon as I run the install.

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hoping someone with the answer missed this the first time.

Have you tried repairing the HDD with Disk Utility?

The disk repair is greyed out.

I clicked on verify disk thinking maybe i had to do that before being able to repair it and it has been verifying for about 15 minutes, how long should it take?

HDD appears to be says its ok, I am now checking disk permisions.

I am open to any ideas, I'm about to the point where i'm going to try to reformat.

matt13 said:

HDD appears to be says its ok, I am now checking disk permisions.

I am open to any ideas, I'm about to the point where i'm going to try to reformat.

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If repair permissions doesn't help, you might as well do the Erase and Install.

Are you using Tiger or Leopard?

For future reference...

1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
   Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk.

Tip: Always start up your computer from an Install or Restore disc when using Disk Utility to verify or repair your startup volume. Otherwise, you might see some disk error messages.

leopard.

I made the jump from panther to leopard, and everything appeared fine at first but it went downhill from there.

Also, did you try these for your Wacom?
http://www.wacom.com/faqs/knowledge_search.cfm?id=335
http://www.wacom.com/productsupport/download.cfm?id=180

I did try to reinstall the driver but it just kept freezing just like trying to do the combo update for 10.5.2

If repairing the partition doesn't work, it's time to start fresh.

Thanks for all the help. Much more helpfull than applecare.

matt13 said:

I did try to reinstall the driver but it just kept freezing just like trying to do the combo update for 10.5.2

If repairing the partition doesn't work, it's time to start fresh.

Thanks for all the help. Much more helpfull than applecare.

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Thanks! I like to think I try.

After installing, repair permissions before updating. You can also try starting in Safe mode and then apply the updates. (sometimes it helps)
And again, after the updates, Repair permissions again. (seems excessive, but can stop problems from starting)

And if trying your Wacom again, follow their instructions and see if it helps.

Good Luck and keep us posted!