sleepjunkie Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 So, I waited and waited for a leopard torrent and hopped on it hours after it was leaked. I WAS excited for it, but now I'm just going crazy. It's really making me feel like an idiot. This is what I have done: I have a USB external enclosure, so I partitioned that twice. I restored the Leopard image onto the 10GB partition and started the installation. 5 minutes or so into it, the harddrive light turned red (should be blue) and the status bar stopped. So, I formatted it again and tried one more time and got the same problem. Next I formatted my 5G iPod the same way, restored the image, started the installation, and it stopped again. I tried it again and got the same problem. Then I decided to restore the image to the external enclosure and install to my iPod. I don't remember exactly what happened here, but it didn't work again. Finally I removed xcode and printer drivers and installed to my 5G iPod. The install (miracuously) finished. When there was about a minute left on the installation I walked out of the room. I came back and saw I had the gray apple status screen. I left that up for well over an hour and a half and then just decided to shut down my MBP. My last attempt was using a 4G firewire iPod. For some reason I cannot partition it and I get an input/output error. I've asked on the oink IRC channel and some people tried to help. I've read through every topic online I could find about it, and nobody seems to be going through this. What could my problem be? I'm tempted to clone my harddrive to an external drive and install right onto my internal laptop drive, but I really don't feel like going through that. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kallis Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I also had massive problems with iPod-installing. I would recommend to just burn a DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepjunkie Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 Thanks for the response. I'm going to try to burn another DVD and attempt an install to my external drive, and if that fails I'll try the iPod again. With things being USB, any idea how long I should be waiting for the actual OS to startup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Damn, it's a good thing I have a spare DVD-DL. I will still try the iPod method first, it would be a waste to burn it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo0019 Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I'm having the same problem but with the previous Leopard Build 9a410 I couldn't install it on my MBP and I try everything. I'm almost done Getting this build I hope" I don't get the same results.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grmbl Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Leopard installed from iPod with no problems. Took like 1 minute to boot from iPod. sleepjunkie: you may have bad image (mounting / verifying will help), some faulty hardware or really, really bad carma. Anyway, good luck with getting it sorted, man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepjunkie Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 Grmbl: How can I verify the image? I'll try your instructions when I get home from work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Grmbl: How can I verify the image? I'll try your instructions when I get home from work. Just go ahead and mount it, it should verify it first. If it doesn't you can drag it in Disk Utility's sidebar, click it and click the Verify button (the one with the microscope). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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