Eric D. Hedekar wrote:
I was recently upgrading my S900 OS9.0 through to 9.2.2 (9.0.4, 9.1, 9.2.1, then 9.2.2) and I was sucessful in getting 9.1 to load and run. I had been runing the downloaded installers off the harddisk, not from CD. When attempting to load 9.2.1 I received the error message at the beginning of the install wizard: this program cannot be installed on this computer, please se the documentaion for more info (the documentation merely told me to boot from CD as the other docs also had done). I attempted the 9.2.2 install at that point but ran into the same block.
Shot down, I decided to burn the image and boot from CD. The method of holding down "C" at the startup does not work on my comp so I was using the command+option+shift+delete function (not sure if that makes a difference to my situation). The comp failed to recognize the CD as valid (I did download these updates straight from the apple website) after many attempts.
I should also mention that I do have the odd problem sometimes with ram sticks (some older some newer) in which my comp frezes without any warning or cause, but that's extremely rare. I'm pretty sure that during one attempt to boot from CD this fault took hold and I was stuck looking at the grey screen with the smiling computer looking back for a few minuites.
After restarting that time, the CD still refused to be recognized so I was ready to throw in the towel on 9.2.1 (and the subsequent 9.2.2). However, when I finished this attempt the friendly computer popped back up - like usual - and then after about 30 seconds of attempting to load the already installed 9.1 (I could hear the hard drive going doo-dah-doo-dah-etc.. at regular intervals) the computer returned to the blinking disc icon. I tried a few more times after that to just simply boot into 9.1 from the hard disk (I have no CD for that and my 9.0 CD has long been lost) but each attempt returned with the same result of false hope and a blinking disk icon.
Any ideas on how bad my system is screwed would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
-Eric
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