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[L1SE19]

i keep getting an error everytime i try to install leopard onto my white macbook.

Currently my macbook has nothing on it at all, completely wiped, no OS at all.

the error i keep getting is something along the lines of

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"failed to verify the essentials package"

i read up and apparently this is a ram problem so..

First off i tried leopard with the default factory two 1gb sticks of ram.

I then tried changing the ram to a 1gb stick from another laptop with no problems.

i then tried changing to two 2gb sticks from a brand new laptop with no problems.

yet i still get teh same error.

lastly i tried downloading and installing Snow Leopard.

I now get thsi error,

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reading from /System/Installation/Packages/BaseSystem.pkg: Input/output error
error processing data: Input/output error
Retrying file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/basesystem.pkg: after 3 failures
Failed to retrieve file://localhost/system/installation/packages/basesystem.pkg (Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=5 User Info=0x1072c2ca0 "The operation couldn't be completed. Input/output error")
Install failed: The installer could not copy the necessary support files.

Physical Memory Allocation: 827MB wired, 1mb trapped, 311mb active, 1392MB Inactive, 1565MB free, 3268MB usable, 4096MB total

Error processing

[Daveta]

YOU HAVE ERASED AN ORIGINAL MAC????

just install orignal dvd!

NOT an iso!

[L1SE19]

It is an original DVD,

I've tried the beta of Snow Leopard asewll, same problem, tried downloading the ISO of retail leopard still same problem