akkkmed Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Hey guys. I'm obviously new here... My friend has helped me out some and has personally installed Mac on his laptop. I have a Toshiba L305 laptop. 3GB RAM, 200GB HDD, Vista Premium, webcam, etc... So far, I have downloaded Kayway 10.5.2, burned it to a disc, made a FAT32 partition on my current HDD, and ran the installer DVD. My issue is that it starts to install, but about 1/10 of the way done, it stops and says "Error. Some files cannot be installed on this drive. Please contact the manufacturer". Is this common/with an easy fix?!? I really want to get this installed tonight!!!! Thank you, and please provide as much info as possible!!!!!!!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135927-noob-here-please-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
nintendoguy Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Are you trying to install The Os onto the Fat partition? if your are, that will not work. you will need to format it into HFS Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135927-noob-here-please-help/#findComment-962894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
richrard Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 yeah, try converting it to hfs+ in disk utility from the toolbar on the top before selecting the install drive if that still fails you, in windows go to device manager and try to find out what chipset you have and search in on here. i just did a toshiba laptop with an nforce 560, and had trouble with it. laptops are a real pain anyway. in most cases you cannot get the display to be detected correctly, and are stuck with 1024x768, even on 16:10 or 16:9 monitors. no quartz extreme or core image either. i think there was a project for this but as far as i know its dead. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135927-noob-here-please-help/#findComment-962899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
akkkmed Posted November 12, 2008 Author Share Posted November 12, 2008 yeah, try converting it to hfs+ in disk utility from the toolbar on the top before selecting the install drive if that still fails you, in windows go to device manager and try to find out what chipset you have and search in on here. i just did a toshiba laptop with an nforce 560, and had trouble with it. laptops are a real pain anyway. in most cases you cannot get the display to be detected correctly, and are stuck with 1024x768, even on 16:10 or 16:9 monitors. no quartz extreme or core image either. i think there was a project for this but as far as i know its dead. Thank you both. I have already tried to format that partition in the Installer, but it says it cannot because it can't be unmounted, whatever the hell the means...? How do I change it using Windows?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135927-noob-here-please-help/#findComment-962905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nintendoguy Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 go into terminal and type umount -f /Volumes/ENTER_DRIVE_HERE. this will force it to unmount Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135927-noob-here-please-help/#findComment-962911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
akkkmed Posted November 12, 2008 Author Share Posted November 12, 2008 go into terminal and type umount -f /Volumes/ENTER_DRIVE_HERE. this will force it to unmount Sorry, but where do I go to the command line??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135927-noob-here-please-help/#findComment-962914 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nintendoguy Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 in the install dvd under utilities, select terminal Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135927-noob-here-please-help/#findComment-962964 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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