Cat Cynic Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 I'm trying to install Snow Leopard from the retail disc (yeah, I know, I'm strange!). I'm doing a clean install on a 15" MacBook Pro (120Gb hard drive, 3Gb RAM) that originally came with Tiger. I had BootCamp on the machine, so I thought I would wipe the drive and do a fresh install. So I booted the DVD, brought up Disk Utility, and did an Erase on the hard drive. That all went fine. I formatted the drive with the defaults. My problem is that I get partway into the installing process, and it tells me "30 minutes to go", then "29 minutes to go". It stops there. After a little while, the DVD spins down. And nothing more happens. If I power the machine down and reboot, I get the folder + ? icon indicating that the hard drive isn't bootable. I put in the disc and it boots. I try the installation again, and it does the same thing. Any suggestions on what I should do to work out what is wrong? I brought up the log window, and restarted the installation - it is listing the packages it is retrieving. The last one listed when the DVD spins down is com.apple.pkg.Java The machine isn't dead at this point - the mouse moves, and I can drag the installer log window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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