eclecticism

05/07/2004 |

Okay, so when I had to reinstall my system the other day, I ended up with an older version of iPhoto (2.0). Since I picked up the iLife package a while back with iPhoto 4, which changed the library format, iPhoto 2 couldn’t get into my photo library. Not a big deal, all I need to do is reinstall the iLife package.

Which was where things got odd.

The iLife package comes with two install discs: a DVD that includes iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, iMovie, and GarageBand, and a CD that has everything except GarageBand (for those poor shmoes stuck in the dark ages of computing). Me being just as organized as ever (in other words, not at all), I wasn’t sure where the install DVD was. No biggie, GarageBand shouldn’t have been touched by the system update (since it isn’t part of a standard system install), so I figured I’d just install the minimal iLife package from the CD installer.

Popped in the CD, launched the installer, and then got this:

p align=”center”> iLife won't install from CD

What?

I’d be pissed if it weren’t so damn funny. That’s just goofy, though — because I have a DVD drive, I have to install from the DVD? The install CD is entirely useless to me? Honestly, that’s one of the most bizarre things I’ve seen from Apple to date.

I found the DVD, though, so I should be good to go from here.

iTunes: “Gangster Tripping” by Fatboy Slim from the album Go (1999, 5:19).

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5 Responses to “This is just goofy”

Arcterex Says:
May 7th, 2004 at 9:05 am

I can’t even imagine why someone would put something like that in…. it boggles the mind.

Feel free to send your useless ilife CD to me though, I’m just an hour or two north of you

Phil Says:
May 7th, 2004 at 10:32 am

The DVD doesn’t have iDVD, either; it’s iMovie, iTunes, and iPhoto only. I couldn’t install iDVD ever after the convoluted setup I had to use that I told you about; it’s got a minimum requirement of a 733 MHz G4 processor just to fun (which makes sense, because it’s a dog of a program).

Kelie Says:
May 7th, 2004 at 8:57 pm

HEY WUDI!! This is an ex Alaska kid who found ya! I used to hang at gigs back in the day…I am soo giggly to have found ya on the web. I am a blog-whore. I read them daily and I write almost daily in my 5 different ones!! I just wanted to say HI HI HI HI!!!!! If you want to…get in touch! I’m on yahoo, AIM and MSN, catch ya later!!