Garrison628 of YouTube Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 OK, so i've tried this a thousand times at least. I burned the kalyway leopard iso for my Dell Optiplex 170L. It is SSE3. I pop in in...boot normally... i the darwin thing loads completely... I get my Apple start-up logo... After a long time of waiting i get to the Installation screen.. I go to Disk Utility to partition my HD... I get an that says "Error starting Disk Utility background process - Disk Utility started, but a background process needed in Disk Utility didn't start properly. Please quit and restart Disk utility." The thing is, i can't click "Ok" because it freezes....... It sounds like the Disk has spun down (stopped spinning). Any idea? Like i said before: Dell Optiplex 170L 512mb RAM 80GB HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenglow2004 Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 hmm strange could be that disk utility is corrupted. or maybe your harddrive is corrupted. maybe you burned a bad disk. things to try. Reburn your dvd. or Download and try leo4all instead. or Format your drive using macdrive in windows. then skip the disk utility steps and just install to the disk you realy dont have much ram to be running leopard. 1gb i would say minimum and even that would probally be slow good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrison628 of YouTube Posted March 25, 2008 Author Share Posted March 25, 2008 I've tried this on two different machines (1 has 1GB of RAM) with the same results... I'm hoping it the DVD.... I'm using a DVD-r... Any known problems with that medium? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muchlife Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 I've tried this on two different machines (1 has 1GB of RAM) with the same results... I'm hoping it the DVD.... I'm using a DVD-r... Any known problems with that medium? DVD -r is fine. its definately not the computer/motherboard as I just installed iPC 10.5.6 on a Dell Optiplex 170L today. DVD loaded fine, disk utility loaded fine. Either disc drive is funky or dying, the DVD was a bad burn, or could even be the hard drive is dying and disk utility is having hard time reading it my iPC 10.5.6 install on Dell Optiplex 170L is 9.5 Voodoo kernel Time Machine Fix video-none Time Machine Fix chipset-LegacyAppleIIXATA Audio-AC97 (in other) Ethernet-Intel Pro100/VE AppleSMBIOS- ToH Patch DSDT Alternate bootloader- Chameleon with SMBIOS/DSDT *ACPI fix, Seatbelt kext, shutdown/restart, dualboot time sync Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zubink Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 muchlife i tried installing ipc 10.5.6 on my dell optiplex 170l when i go to install the install screens are unreadable because it's all grayed out so you can't really make out anything especially in the customize section... any tips ? did you type anything at boot to get around it, ive heard of some graphics mode which i tried at boot and it didn't help. i tried previously to install on my dell dimension e510 and actually was able to but when it goes to reboot it then hangs on the apple grey screen... out of the two though id like to get the 170L working and sell the e510... let me know if you have any insight since you have the same computer and used the same image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zubink Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 i was able to get it to work... i had to change the video buffer from 1mb to 8mb... however my audio isnt working, i selected the ac97... any tricks involved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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