Asus P5GZ-MX - Installation failed: file copy error

[lzgr]

First of all, hello everyone :-)

I have a problem with installing iAtkos S3 v2.

I burned it to a DVD on the lowest speed available.

Next, I followed this tutorial since the same motherboard as mine has been used.

I erased my hard drive and set Mac OS X Journaling (Extended) file system.

I selected all the customizations as in that tutorial.

It started installing and was stuck at the installing screen (18 minutes remaining) for about 15-20 minutes. Then it gave me an error screen, same as here: http://imageshack.us/f/818/p1120567.jpg/

I don't know what to do, since I'm new in this stuff, I used Linux and Windows before.

Just another tip, I couldn't set my drive to AHCI mode since there is no option to do that in my BIOS Setup screen.

 

Here are my PC specs:

 

 

MBO: Asus P5GZ-MX

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 640 @ 3.2 GHz

RAM: 1 GB Kingmax

GPU: nVidia/Asus 9800 GT 512 MB

HDD: Wester Digital 1600AAJS 160 GB

 

I think I provided all the necessary information :-)

 

 

I hope you can solve my problem

 

Best regards to all,

lzgr

[xx66stangxx]

Could be a bad disc copy or bad DL.

[lzgr]

Well, I checked MD5SUM after downloading and ImgBurn verified it as ok after burning.

I'll try to download another copy :-)

 

Do you have any suggestions what should I download?

[artur_pt]

hi

 

have you try to boot that failed installation, sometimes the installer give that message but mac os x is installed.

 

good hack

[lzgr]

hi

 

have you try to boot that failed installation, sometimes the installer give that message but mac os x is installed.

 

good hack

Tried that already, I just get the blinking underscore ( _ ), nothing else.

 

Now i tried to boot the install DVD, it just stays on the applo logo screen, and the DVD drive gives sound similar to a floppy drive. I guess the DVD is damaged.

 

BTW Is it normal for a DVD to be like this? It seems a bit strange to me, I've never seen a DVD like this.

 

 

 

And here are my hardware keys, if that can help in any way.

 

 

 

 

EDIT: I burned the image for the 2nd time, and now it shows only 996 KB of used DVD space in Windows Explorer. Is that normal?

Could someone help? I really want to use OS X :-(

[xx66stangxx]

I would suggest to use a legal retail version of SL. Here is a guide that uses it: http://3rr0rists.net/macintosh/how-to-install-snow-leopard-retail-in-a-pc.html

[lzgr]

Good news (probably)

I'm in the middle of the installation proccess, it passed "The 18 minutes dead point" :-)

I'll post the updates here :-)

 

UPDATE #1: The PC rebooted in the middle of the installation (don't know when, I wasn't looking at it, i just heard the beep), and I started the PC from the new partition containing iAtkos. Then the grey screen with grey apple logo showed up:

 

 

I waited for about 15 mins, nothing happened so I rebooted, now I am waiting at the Chameleon bootloader screen, if you could tell me what to do next.