macman88 Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 (edited) Alright, so my Core Duo MacBook had been formatted into 3 partitions for my little project: 1-Tiger 2-Leopard Target 3-Windows XP Since Leopard is over 4.5GBs, I followed a guide to making it read/writeable and removing XCode off it. I then burned it onto a DVD-RW and booted it up. After 30 minutes of reading off the disc, the MacBook shuts down at the blue screen with a beachball cursor. It happend 3 times. Time for method 2: I decreased the size of my Leopard target drive so I can make another partition and put the install disc on it using Disk Utility -> Recovery. So here's what it looked like afterwards: 1-Tiger 2-Leopard Target 3-Leopard Install 4-Windows XP I managed to get all the way into the wizard and choose my destination but after I hit the button to begin install, I get an error saying "Install Failed" and something about not being able to format/use the volume. Can this be related to the Leopard Target and Install partitions being on the boot disk? I also tried removing the XP partition and installing-same error. Right now, I'm stumped. My last ditch effort is turning my external hard disk from apple partition table to GPT and recovering the image onto there and then hopefully installing. If that doesn't work, I'll just destroy everything but Tiger and repartition a FAT32 volume to install vista. and get Leopard when it ships around Easter (unless Apple pulls a Microsoft and pushes Leopard back 2 years..) Any suggestions I should try before I give up and install Vista? Edited January 18, 2007 by macman88 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39082-problems-installing-9a321/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 With 9A321, you can not install from the same hard disk as you are going to be installing to. What you can do is use an external hard drive, restore the Leopard image to that and then perform the installation. Either that, or if you have another mac around somewhere, you could always install the OS X Server tools on top of your existing installation, at which point you can network boot. It is easy in that case, you just need to grab an OS X Server Installation Image (on ADC or various torrent networks). Then, you can go into the Server Preferences and configure a Netboot Server. You just drag your Leopard DMG to the Image List. Then, all you need to do is reboot holding "N". That could make your life a whole lot simpler if you plan on doing all kinds of testing or OS replacement as new builds come out. (Really gets you around the whole No Dual-Layer DVDs thing). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39082-problems-installing-9a321/#findComment-278538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzeh Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Or...just use an iPod. Restore the image to an iPod an boot to it. This way, you have a full, external image on a partition. Note: make sure all your songs are on your iTunes and leave a few hours to restore your iPod after this whole thing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39082-problems-installing-9a321/#findComment-278591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macman88 Posted January 19, 2007 Author Share Posted January 19, 2007 thanks for all your help. I was able to install leopard and reimage XP using my backup...I'm typing on 9a321 right now! however, one problem: XP is having a really hard time recognizing the new drive layout (tiger, leopard, xp instead of tiger, xp) and it's BSODing on boot with a Stop error 0x0000007F (hardware fault). I tried reinstalling it and it worked, but that doens't help me with my data on the image... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39082-problems-installing-9a321/#findComment-279209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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