On Dec 16, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Brother Eye wrote:
> After all we've been through, anyone want to hazard a guess as to why
> I can't upgrade to 10.4.1? It states my volume does not me the
> necessary requirements, it has plenty of available space??? Sheeesh!
Here's a bunch of guesses:
1) did you remove the SCSI card and try installing using only one
stick of RAM?
2) Any chance you've got the wrong version of Tiger (the Intel version
rather than PPC).
3) Any chance your HD is partitioned with the wrong partition scheme?
It should be "Apple Partition Scheme" for PPC Macs, rather than "GUID"
used by Intel, or "Master Boot Record" used by PCs. The file format
"HFS+ journaled" is already correct, but it is independent of the
partition scheme, which must be correct to begin with. You can check
the partition scheme in Disk Utility by highlighting the HD and
looking at the bottom.
4) If you're trying to install onto your 25 GB HD ("Who Knows") there
isn't enough free space (only 2.53 GB freespace), you'll need to
install onto the 112 GB HD ("Macintosh HD") instead. Normally, you'll
need at least 4-5 GB freespace for installing Tiger.
5) Your Radeon card has old firmware, version 127, while the current
version should be at least v.135 or 136. You'll need to get the Radeon
August 2005 firmware update program and update this firmware, but I
don't think this would be the reason you can't install Tiger, but
Tiger is picky and does require the latest firmware for all Radeon
cards, so you must upgrade still. Here's a link to download the ATI
Radeon August 2005 ROM Update:
<http://applemacanix.com/drivers.htm>
Follow the instructions in the Read Me and after it's done, check the
version in System Profiler. This is important, do this upgrade.
Also, your DVD-RW has older firmware, version SB01 where there is a
newer version SB02 available. You'll need a Windows PC to upgrade the
firmware on the DVD-RW, but this is probably not important if it's
working well for you now. Here's a link to the newer SB02 firmware:
<http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/SingleModel.aspx?DriveId=1627>
Also, if you have access to a Windows PC, it appears your 25 GB HD
(the Maxtor 52732U6) is an ATA66 HD, but Maxtor was converting to
ATA100 at the time, and there's a good possibility you could change
this HD to ATA100 using an old Maxtor DOS program called "66 to 100".
Again, this isn't causing your problems installing Tiger, but it might
make this old HD work a tiny bit faster. I don't think this is
something you'll want to do, but I can send you the DOS program if you
decide to try.
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