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[hansblix]

I am gettin kernel panic on my first boot after installation.
edited .plist but the installer showed me that error postupgrade script for snowjob...
but I think it could not work because of my pata drives?The Snow partition is on a sata drive but I have 2 more pata drives.

Sry, I didnt read carefully. I did install Extras with camelon rc2. Now the installation went well. I wonder if i can install chameleon rc3 after having installed snow...I just need my computer today an cannot play around so much time ;-)

Ah and my pata drives are not recognized...which is not sooo bad...but anyway.

[MacDad]

I'm having problem with this install method. When I'm opening OSInstall.mpkg it installs fine (deselect printer) but the root of HD is messed up with folders I normally do not see. Another thing is that the install.log is not created after I have installed Chameleon and GA-P35-DS4 Snow Leopard Installer. When I boot the computer freeze at the Chameleon boot screen.

I have a GA-P35-DS4 installed with 10.5.7 using LS8 v17. I'm installing from this HD to a second HD (tried both internal HD and USB).

I also tried to install SL to a USB from my MacBook. In this case I can not install the Chameleon.

Can someone please help!

[LS8]

hansblix, on Sep 10 2009, 10:03 AM, said:

...my pata drives are not recognized...which is not sooo bad...but anyway.

Forget PATA, it is not supported.

MacDad, on Sep 10 2009, 10:48 AM, said:

I'm having problem with this install method. When I'm opening OSInstall.mpkg it installs fine (deselect printer) but the root of HD is messed up with folders I normally do not see. Another thing is that the install.log is not created after I have installed Chameleon and GA-P35-DS4 Snow Leopard Installer. When I boot the computer freeze at the Chameleon boot screen.

Make sure that you point the SL to the correct (empty) partition, ditto for Chameleon installer!

[CmCd01]

xaverloisl, on Sep 10 2009, 02:36 AM, said:

NTFS-3G 4.4 does only work in 32bit however but it can be switched on and off.

NTFS drivers are built-in to Snow Leopard - see this thread NTFS info on how to enable. I am writing to NTFS drives without NTFS-3G.

[MacDad]

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(MacDad @ Sep 10 2009, 10:48 AM) I'm  having problem with this install method. When I'm opening  OSInstall.mpkg it installs fine (deselect printer) but the root of HD  is messed up with folders I normally do not see. Another thing is that  the install.log is not created after I have installed Chameleon and  GA-P35-DS4 Snow Leopard Installer. When I boot the computer freeze at  the Chameleon boot screen.

Make sure that you point the SL to the correct (empty) partition, ditto for Chameleon installer!

  

I did format my second HD as a single and empty GUID partition. Then I installed everything to this new HD. Just as I did when I successfully installed 10.5.7 using LS8v17. Tried this several times and every time the root of the new HD is messed up with folders that normally is not visible. I believe it is the install of the OSInstall.mpkg that goes wrong. Any suggestions?

[the_gael]

MacDad, on Sep 10 2009, 12:40 PM, said:

Make sure that you point the SL to the correct (empty) partition, ditto for Chameleon installer!  

I did format my second HD as a single and empty GUID partition. Then I installed everything to this new HD. Just as I did when I successfully installed 10.5.7 using LS8v17. Tried this several times and every time the root of the new HD is messed up with folders that normally is not visible. I believe it is the install of the OSInstall.mpkg that goes wrong. Any suggestions?

I have noticed the messy folders as well - some appeared to be shortcuts so I deleted them to see what happened. What happened was that my system would not boot past the spinning wheel - so i have just re-installed and left them there. At some point I would like to tidy up the root of my drive.

I will follow with interest any progress on these folders, in the meantime having installed my system on a Solid State Drive and keeping User profiles on a SATA drive Snow Kitty absolutely flies on my machine so I am delighted with performance and will put up with the messy appearance just now.

[mafiasilk]

Anyone know how to fix the Disk Utility Error in noob talk?
Using this guide when i run DU, I get

Error: No installer packages can be found for this disk

I've searched plenty of threads and some mention running BSD.pkg, I dont know how to run this or even where it is, should I run this on this guide? or another way to fix it?

[LS8]

I think this DU bug occurs if you install Snow Leo from Leo. Try to install Snow Leo from another Snow Leo.

[captcolin]

Hi Guys, i have 5.7 working fine at the moment,i use usb active speakers,so dont need drivers for onboard sound,also i have a 8800gts,320meg,running full 1920x1080,so will i be able to run snow 10.6,with out to much trouble,i'm a complete noob, so be gentle   

[the_gael]

Is anyone experiencing problems with Time Machine? I have just set up a Drive as a Time Machine Backup and it fails each time I try and run a backup.

I get this error



I have never seen this error before so if anyone can shed light on what it may be please let me know!
Thanks

Edited to Say: I just found that in my Energy Saver the disks are set by default to sleep after 15 minutes which is exactly the time that the backups fail. I have just adjusted this and am testing to see if this has any effect on the issue

[tseug]

mafiasilk, on Sep 10 2009, 03:19 PM, said:

Anyone know how to fix the Disk Utility Error in noob talk?
Using this guide when i run DU, I get

Error: No installer packages can be found for this disk

I've searched plenty of threads and some mention running BSD.pkg, I dont know how to run this or even where it is, should I run this on this guide? or another way to fix it?

Put in DVD

Run in terminal: open /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/System/Installation/Packages/BSD.pkg

[mafiasilk]

LS8, on Sep 10 2009, 03:38 PM, said:

I think this DU bug occurs if you install Snow Leo from Leo. Try to install Snow Leo from another Snow Leo.

I tried installing Snow again from inside snow using this guide. It installed, but I cannot get Chameleon to install, says failed? Any ideas

[tseug]

mafiasilk, on Sep 10 2009, 09:07 PM, said:

I tried installing Snow again from inside snow using this guide. It installed, but I cannot get Chameleon to install, says failed? Any ideas

Mine does that too. Not sure why. It does seem to work though.

[MacDad]

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I tried installing Snow again from inside snow using this guide. It installed, but I cannot get Chameleon to install, says failed? Any ideas

Mine does that too. Not sure why. It does seem to work though.

Mine does too. Can I install the Snow Installer from my Mac Book as well? Or do I need to run this from my Leopard install on the DS4?

[zikade]

Brillant work, dude.
I had to replace the - working - dsdt.aml with my own dsdt for use with my graphics card. Runs fine in 32 and 64-Bit mode, the latter without (surprise, surprise) bonjour. And resuming from sleep.

Thanks again!

[tseug]

MacDad, on Sep 10 2009, 08:20 PM, said:

Mine does that too. Not sure why. It does seem to work though.


Mine does too. Can I install the Snow Installer from my Mac Book as well? Or do I need to run this from my Leopard install on the DS4?

The problem would be generating a DSDT. I don't think that would work from a macbook.

[artmusic]

thanks for this fine tutorial !
My questions:
- I have a working OS X 10.5.8 install on drive 1 ( GA -P35-DS4, 8 Gb Ram,Q8200,Nvidia 9400GT 512 mb)
- I want to install SnowLeo on drive 2 first for testing- so I want to DualBoot 10.5.8 and snowleo ( 10.6)
- can I boot again after install of 10.6. to my old 10.5.8 install with the new chameleon 2 rc3 r658 ??
- or what I have to do to preserve or rescue my working 10.5.8 install in case of trouble with 10.6. ??

[the_gael]

The Gael, on Sep 10 2009, 05:24 PM, said:

Is anyone experiencing problems with Time Machine? I have just set up a Drive as a Time Machine Backup and it fails each time I try and run a backup.

I get this error



I have never seen this error before so if anyone can shed light on what it may be please let me know!
Thanks

Edited to Say: I just found that in my Energy Saver the disks are set by default to sleep after 15 minutes which is exactly the time that the backups fail. I have just adjusted this and am testing to see if this has any effect on the issue

OK, I reset the Energy saver settings to set sleep for a much longer time ie 3hrs and all works fine.
I am assuming that normally the machine should not Kill a backup by sending the disks to sleep - so is anyone aware of this issue or have I missed something - I did a google search for Snow leopard, sleep and Time Machine but nothing came up. Has anyone else experienced this issue? I have addressed the issue by extending the time before the machine sleeps but would prefer if I can get it all working normally.

[the_gael]

OK so 10.6.1 update is out - anyone updated yet?

[pan-pan]

I have no sound!! What can i do? i have the p35-ds4 mobo and f14 bios! Everything else working great!