Install worked fine, but a reinstall...

[samling]

Well, after going out and buying a cheap, working PCI ethernet card, I immediately went online in my OS X 10.4.3 (with the JaS patch) and got a new version of quicktime to see if my audio worked. Long story short, the quicktime install screwed my current installation, so I had to format the partition (on my slave drive) and start anew.

 

My problems since then have been quite frequent.

 

Basically, here's the list:

-Deleting the partition in partition magic 8 creates unallocated space, which presumably the Apple disk manager in the installer should be able to properly format. Alas, I get a "SAM multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, ASC=0x08, ASCQ=0x03" error 5 times immediately after the detection of my mouse and keyboard.

-Creating an af-type partition using diskpart in Windows, then setting it to Active in partition magic allows me to actually go through the installer. However, at the very, very end (e.g. everything finishes), it tells me there were errors during the installation, and that I have to reboot.

-After rebooting back into windows, reactivating my Acronis bootloader and seeing if it could detect OS X anyway (which, apparently, it could), I tried booting it up, only to be met with the apple logo, a spinning dealy, and shortly thereafter a message box telling me to restart my computer (which is exactly what happened after I installed quicktime).

 

This installation, as I said, was working nearly flawlessly this morning. Any ideas? I can provide computer specs, but I don't think they'd help, as everything I have is adequate, my install DVD hasn't changed (I even burned a new one with Alcohol 120% to see if that changed anything, which it didn't) and my partitions haven't changed except for reformatting the Mac one and then again making it an af-type partition.

 

In the beginning of the reinstall I skipped the disk check. Should I not do this? I wasn't sure if it was completely necessary. Perhaps I'll try it again with the disk check.

 

Thanks.

[samling]

Ok, update for anyone who's having a similar problem.

 

I managed to fix the problem. What it involved was putting the DVD in the drive that I had burned it from (which required me to disable the master disc drive in BIOS, as otherwise it would not detect the install disc). I then left the partition devoted to Mac OS X 10.4.3 as unallocated space and used the OS X installer disc management utility to partition it properly. I let it run through the disc check just in case, and everything is working fine. It seems to actually be better - I haven't had any of the skips I had been experiencing before.

 

Hope that helps other people.