Most likely the installation is flaky, that's the usual cause. Are you installing over your old system or on a clean partition? I've had trouble with upgrades, and since I have the room, I usually install on a freshly formated partition these days, especially when going from one version to another. You will get the option to copy over all your settings, including users, the name of the computer, etc. This is much better than overwriting an existing system.
Also, 25G is too small for installation, even though only 12 G is required. Not enough space will result in very long optimizations, and sometimes a bad install. Try booting off the installation disks and aborting the installation. Open up Disk Utilities and check the hard drive partition you are attempting to install on. Repair disk permissions and repair the disk -- sometimes the permissions get screwed up and it won't start, but will once you fix them. If you don't get the option to repair permissions, you will have to re-install as you don't have a functional OS in place. If it were me (and I didn't have data on that partition I needed), I'd erase it and try again. Better to use a new bigger partition, but if you don't have it you don't have it. Might be a good idea to reset PRAM too, just in case, as sometimes an upgrade causes it to get scrambled and cause the boot to hang. You should also boot in verbose mode to see what's holding you up. Might be a "fix the boot drive" thing that can take a while on a 25G drive. Peter On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:27 PM, clay monroe wrote: > Upgraded sawtooth G4 with 1gig ram, dual 120gig drives, 1.4ghz cpu, > 10.4.11 updating to leopard. Went fine until it rebooted and then > the computer just shuts down. Needed 12 gig for install. Install > disk had 25 gig available. Using logged startup, so I see sort of > what happens, but before I can read the error, it just shuts down. > Maybe 25 lines or so. > > Any ideas? > > Lack of disk space? Borked the logic board? > > > HELP > > > clay > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
