don123 Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 OK so I have a Gateway 6020GZ laptop and I am trying to install Leopard on it. Specs: Pentium M 1.5 (SSE2) 1.25 GB RAM i855 Northbridge ICH4 Southbridge Conexant Audio BCM onboard LAN BCM Wireless (Pulled from my G4 so I know it works) So far I've tried the Kalyway installer (10.5.2) and everytime I run through the install I get this message with about 5 minutes to go: "The installer could not validate the contents of the 'java tools' package. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance. Please reboot to try the installation again" I have tried to resolve this by re-burning the media with more conservative settings and also changing the combo drive in the laptop. Both have had no effect - the error comes up each and everytime. Any suggestion on how I could get around this error? - or - Is there a "better" installer for older SSE2 platforms? Any and all suggestions would be greatly appriciated. PS: All I really want is a bootable Leopard install with USB support. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139874-help-leopard-install-on-gateway-6020gz-laptop/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 I had problems, esp with usb, using Kaly 10.5.2 on my SSE2 older laptop (Dell D600). It worked with Kaly 10.5.1 which I'm running now, usb works fine, so maybe try that (SSE2 kernel). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139874-help-leopard-install-on-gateway-6020gz-laptop/#findComment-990773 Share on other sites More sharing options...
don123 Posted December 7, 2008 Author Share Posted December 7, 2008 Thanks for the tip. I'll see if I can find that version of the installer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139874-help-leopard-install-on-gateway-6020gz-laptop/#findComment-990782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
don123 Posted December 7, 2008 Author Share Posted December 7, 2008 OK I tried the iDeneb 10.5.5 version of the installer and it completed the install successfully. However the laptop sppntaniosly reboots just a second or two after the boot loader tries to boot from the hard drive. I'm going to try again with the speedstep kernel and hopefully that'll work better. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139874-help-leopard-install-on-gateway-6020gz-laptop/#findComment-990818 Share on other sites More sharing options...
don123 Posted December 7, 2008 Author Share Posted December 7, 2008 Speedstep kernel panics in default, single and safe mode...arg. Now I need to learn how to manually change my kernel so I can try the others without re-installing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139874-help-leopard-install-on-gateway-6020gz-laptop/#findComment-991011 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 I'm going to try iATKOS v5i next on my SSE2, using one of the mod kernels, like voodoo. You can choose one at install so its easy to do. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139874-help-leopard-install-on-gateway-6020gz-laptop/#findComment-991151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
don123 Posted December 9, 2008 Author Share Posted December 9, 2008 OK - iATKOS 5i loaded with Voodoo kernel. Kernel panics on bot and just hangs in safe mode. Next I tried Kalyway 10.5.1 selecting only SSE2 system and MBR boot loader. Woohoo, OSx86 boots with this installer. The good: - USB / Airport / ATA / FW / USB all work great! The bad: - Keyboard, touchpad, video do not work. Never the less I am posting this via my OSx86 install via an external USB keyboard and mouse. :-) Stay tuned for more. Keyboard and trackpad now working courtesy of the following thread: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...yboard&st=0 :-) Keyboard and trackpad now working courtesy of the following thread: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...yboard&st=0 Off to work I go - later I tackle the Audio and Video issues remaining (Proper 1280x800 would be nice) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139874-help-leopard-install-on-gateway-6020gz-laptop/#findComment-992653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
don123 Posted December 10, 2008 Author Share Posted December 10, 2008 So I had a little more time to play tonight. A few more observations: - sleep doesn't work - my broadcom card always starts "off" and I have to click the turn on Airport menu twice to get it going. Once running the performance is good. - audio "sort of works" it either crackles of chimes nicely, no pattern. - No luck getting 1280x800 working yet but there's always tomorrow. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139874-help-leopard-install-on-gateway-6020gz-laptop/#findComment-993560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 So I had a little more time to play tonight. A few more observations: - sleep doesn't work - my broadcom card always starts "off" and I have to click the turn on Airport menu twice to get it going. Once running the performance is good. - audio "sort of works" it either crackles of chimes nicely, no pattern. - No luck getting 1280x800 working yet but there's always tomorrow. For the wireless, I found that when I edited the plist to change en1 to en0 for the network, it became more stable. The fix was actually to get time machine to recognize my usb hdd, but the wireless did improve. Check your profiler, under network, to see if your connection is en1 or en0, as it should be en0. The thread was under the fixes for time machine. The sleep problem was one of the reasons that I was going to try 10.5.5 voodoo. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139874-help-leopard-install-on-gateway-6020gz-laptop/#findComment-995277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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