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Old 07-27-2008, 03:36 AM
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well if you can still boot up with the DVD you can place the kext on a flash drive and install it to your drive in the
<b>/System/Library/Extensions/</b> folder. The permissions can then be set manually using the Terminal (for this I will use "Leopard" as the name of the volume you installed to):

<b>chmod -R 755 /Volumes/Leopard/System/Library/Extensions/</b>
<b>chown -R root:wheel /Volumes/Leopard/System/Library/Extensions/</b>

Since you can't boot from your OS X drive, you'll be unable to use kext helper right away...
but that is a lot easier to just drag-n-drop-n-forget.

transmac is good, but it defeats the ability to get to know your Mac System. using the DVD and a flash drive will allow yo to get into the weeds a little more... I think everyone should be able to use the Terminal.

remember... to copy a file in Terminal:

<b>cp -R /path/to/original/file /path/to/new/location/</b>

hope that helps.

@LawlessPPC
It stated a few errors at startup dealing with permissions... yeah, the alcinject but also the broadcom wireless kext. fixed permissions through the Terminal and by installing my audio through AppleHDAPatcher... Its working fine now on my Test drive. I'm thinking of installing it to my main drive (I like the fact that I can use Time Machine again...). I want to install fully from DVD to see if I can correct any noob mistakes I might have done through the Customize option.
Except for those few hiccups, I think its a sound installer! Good work mate.

Cheers, Stix

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