Re: OSX 10.3 install fails on disk 2

[Steve Fuller]

I had the same problem when I upgraded my G4/400 to 10.3. It's a 
documented problem and the solution is somewhere on the Apple site. It 
is caused by having an old version of itunes on your HD. Delete any 
copies of itunes on your drive and try again. It should work.
Good suggestion, but I think that he said he blew the drive away during 
the install. I would see if there is any non-apple ram in the machine. 
If there is, remove it and see if that helps any.

Steve
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Re: OSX 10.3 install fails on disk 2

[Steve Sharpe]

At 12:46 AM -0600 12/23/04, Rad Craig wrote:
I got my little sis a Pismo for college, for xmas.  I just got it 
and am installing 10.3 on it.  I blew the drive away, formatted OSX 
extended (journaled) and started from scratch.  I unchecked all the 
languages and printer drivers.

Disk 1 finished without problems.  I reboot, get promted to insert 
disk 2 and it gets almost done, to about 9 minutes remaining, then 
says something like 'errors were encountered during installation' 
and the button changes to 'quit'.

I have done this twice now, with two different Disk #2's and got the 
same error both times.

After the first install, I was doing the software update, which was 
quite a list, and it hosed up on the last item in the list, which is 
all the 10.3 updates for OSX (like 97MB).  Then it would no longer 
connect to the internet via ethernet.  I restarted twice, repaired 
disk permissions, but that didn't fix anything.  I mounted the disk 
2 and ran the install.pkg manually and it finished without problems, 
but still acted flaky.  I tried to reboot on a recovery CD I have, 
but when I selected it in 'startup disk' and clicked reboot, it 
would just sit there and never reboot.  So I closed startup disk and 
restarted it via the apple menu, held the 'c' key down during boot, 
and it ignored it and booted to the HD like normal.

So after all these strange things, I decided I'd try it all again, 
used a different disk 2 cd, but got the same results.

This is a Pismo, 400mhz, 11.2G HD, 192MB.
Any suggestions?  I've got to have this thing all setup for her by xmas eve.
I had the same problem when I upgraded my G4/400 to 10.3. It's a 
documented problem and the solution is somewhere on the Apple site. 
It is caused by having an old version of itunes on your HD. Delete 
any copies of itunes on your drive and try again. It should work.
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Re: OSX 10.3 install fails on disk 2

[Richard Clark]

i think it might be a ram problem.
On 23 Dec 2004, at 7:51 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
Any suggestions?  I've got to have this thing all setup for her by 
xmas
eve.
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Re: OSX 10.3 install fails on disk 2

[Laurent Daudelin]

on 23/12/04 01:46, Rad Craig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I got my little sis a Pismo for college, for xmas.  I just got it and
> am installing 10.3 on it.  I blew the drive away, formatted OSX
> extended (journaled) and started from scratch.  I unchecked all the
> languages and printer drivers.
> 
> Disk 1 finished without problems.  I reboot, get promted to insert disk
> 2 and it gets almost done, to about 9 minutes remaining, then says
> something like 'errors were encountered during installation' and the
> button changes to 'quit'.
> 
> I have done this twice now, with two different Disk #2's and got the
> same error both times.
> 
> After the first install, I was doing the software update, which was
> quite a list, and it hosed up on the last item in the list, which is
> all the 10.3 updates for OSX (like 97MB).  Then it would no longer
> connect to the internet via ethernet.  I restarted twice, repaired disk
> permissions, but that didn't fix anything.  I mounted the disk 2 and
> ran the install.pkg manually and it finished without problems, but
> still acted flaky.  I tried to reboot on a recovery CD I have, but when
> I selected it in 'startup disk' and clicked reboot, it would just sit
> there and never reboot.  So I closed startup disk and restarted it via
> the apple menu, held the 'c' key down during boot, and it ignored it
> and booted to the HD like normal.
> 
> So after all these strange things, I decided I'd try it all again, used
> a different disk 2 cd, but got the same results.
> 
> This is a Pismo, 400mhz, 11.2G HD, 192MB.
> 
> Any suggestions?  I've got to have this thing all setup for her by xmas
> eve.
> 
> 
> Rad...
> 

Is the 2nd CD an original one or a copy? Did you notice if the install would
fail at the same place and if so, what was the installer installing?

-Laurent.
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