Commodore-Freak Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Well, i just received my copy of MacOS Leopard WWDC Beta Preview. The question is how to install it. My Mac Mini G4 always hangs around at "Installing BSD Subsystem". I googled for this error, and i found out that it is a known one. The first thing i tried to get rid of this was to copy all the disk content to my external harddrive, replace the BSD.pkg with the one from the tiger DVD and then to install OSinstall.mpkg throughout the Tiger installation disk. Well, at least the idea turned out to be not THAT stupid. I was able to install and even to boot up my leopard. But, after going through the first-boot-wizard the desktop would not turn up... I waited vor about 30minutes, rebootet several times, with and without my external firewire drive... Nothing. Verbose mode doesn't give me any abnormal messages, single user works. My idea is to install the right BSD Subsystem via Pacifist, but how? I cannot start it from the tiger install, /sbin/lsbom is missing... Is there any way to install .pkg files throughout the single user mode? Perhaps this will turn out to be quite usefull... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Well, i just received my copy of MacOS Leopard WWDC Beta Preview.The question is how to install it. My Mac Mini G4 always hangs around at "Installing BSD Subsystem". I googled for this error, and i found out that it is a known one. The first thing i tried to get rid of this was to copy all the disk content to my external harddrive, replace the BSD.pkg with the one from the tiger DVD and then to install OSinstall.mpkg throughout the Tiger installation disk. Well, at least the idea turned out to be not THAT stupid. I was able to install and even to boot up my leopard. But, after going through the first-boot-wizard the desktop would not turn up... I waited vor about 30minutes, rebootet several times, with and without my external firewire drive... Nothing. Verbose mode doesn't give me any abnormal messages, single user works. My idea is to install the right BSD Subsystem via Pacifist, but how? I cannot start it from the tiger install, /sbin/lsbom is missing... Is there any way to install .pkg files throughout the single user mode? Perhaps this will turn out to be quite usefull... I think you may be able to use the pax utility from the command line - which is what Pacifist uses, but sadly I've never done it and AFAIK it's one of the hardest things to use. Perhaps you could look around or hope it has a manpage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
space ace Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 restart holding shift (safe mode) it was like that on previous builds and after such restart it booted fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commodore-Freak Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 Safe Mode doesn't work either... He want's me to log in, but after this the only difference to normal startup is that I now kan see the Tiger wallpaper instead of simply blue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 I had this happen on a previous seed, turned out the image was corrupt and I needed to re-download it..... sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Now that you mention it I also happened to have the same issue, but only when I tried to install it from the .mpkg instead of running the installer directly from DVD/HDD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commodore-Freak Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 I had this happen on a previous seed, turned out the image was corrupt and I needed to re-download it..... sorry. May I ask where you got the proper image? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 May I ask where you got the proper image? If you don't care about the thread being locked and/or deleted. There's another thread discussing it anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commodore-Freak Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 I always like to get PMs.... Would be nice of you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 I always like to get PMs.... Would be nice of you... http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=54625 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commodore-Freak Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 BTW., i have got the BSD Subsystem problems when installing via tiger, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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