Chris L. Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Okay, I've got a G5 2.0 Ghz with 3 gb of RAM, 2 internal SATA drives (one cleared and ready for Leopard) and two ATi video cards and two LCD displays. I acquired a copy of 9a466. After burning it to a DVD DL, I rebooted intending on installing Leopard onto my spare internal. It booted just fine, and then I went through the normal steps. Once it got to the actual installation, it gets about 1/7th of the process (about or around underneath the 'M' in "Installing Mac OS..etc" it just sits there. It doesn't lock up, it doesn't freeze, it just sits there. I left it for about 50 min. and it still didn't progress. The first time I tried it, it says 25 min. remaining. Since trying it 3 or 4 more times (every time before I reformat the destination drive) the time remaining changes from 25 min., to 24, to 46 to 23. Very inconsistent. I even tried unplugging all my peripherals with the exception of the keyboard and mouse. I tried getting a different copy, but I can't even boot from it. I get a kernel panic. So I've stuck with my original burn. Can anyone help me? Anyone have this issue? Thanks in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55295-please-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Did you try burning it to another partition on your first HDD? It may help to try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55295-please-help/#findComment-395496 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L. Posted June 25, 2007 Author Share Posted June 25, 2007 Burning to another partition on my first HDD? Do you mean my main drive? And by burning do you mean copy? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55295-please-help/#findComment-395501 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vsquared Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 What he means is creating a separate partition on your first (or, much faster way) your second drive just big enough (7Gig) to "restore" the image you "acquired" to it then restarting (startup disk) to that partition, then doing the installation from there... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55295-please-help/#findComment-395519 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L. Posted June 25, 2007 Author Share Posted June 25, 2007 Vsquared. That's a good idea. So, I'll reformat the second drive with two partitions and restore the image to the smaller partition, boot from it, and install on the bigger partition right? I also forgot to mention I tried installing Tiger on the second drive first, installing all updates, then upgrading. Did the same thing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55295-please-help/#findComment-395530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vsquared Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Try this EDIT: WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T UPGRADE. It's just going to waste a great deal of time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55295-please-help/#findComment-395534 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L. Posted June 26, 2007 Author Share Posted June 26, 2007 I'm running Leopard now!!! Thanks to both of you for your help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55295-please-help/#findComment-395587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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