HELP !!! OSX install errors.

[Allan Speers]

I'm trying to install Panther on my second ATA drive. This drive currently has no OS on it.

OS9 is currently on my main ATA drive (bus 0 )

I've tried installing disk #1 about six times. Each time it runs for about 1/2 hr, then tell sme that there were installation errors. The disk itself is absolutely OK, and has 20 gig free.
It was formatted a year ago with the Apple OS9 utilities / HFS+

There are no scratches on the install disk. I am out of ideas.

Any suggestions? Any guesses?

[Wolfgang Eller]

It was formatted a year ago with the Apple OS9 utilities / HFS+

Did you try to format the disc during the OSX install?

There should be a difference between OS9 HFS+ and OSX HFS+ cause in OSX the disc programm asks you if you want to install the OS9 driver when you wants to format a disc.

Good luck Wolfgang

[Tweakhead]

When you are at the install page having booted from the CD, go to one of the menus and launch Disk Utility.

Format the drive as HFS+(Journaled), and check the OS9 driver box. If you are partitioning check this for each partition.

Journaled HFS+ drives recover more quickly after a crash, but DO NOT use this journaled option for audio drives.

[jeremyroberts]

It was formatted a year ago with the Apple OS9 utilities / HFS+

Try reformatting using OSX cdrom disk utils. This sounds like the problem.

[Allan Speers]

You all seem to agree. I was hoping to not have to re-format, since that requires a ton of back-ups, but I'll do this today and report back.

Thanks for all the good info.

[Allan Speers]

Aaaaaaarrrgghhh......

OK, I backed-up my bus-0 drive, and formatted it HFS+ journalled with the OSX installer disk.

The Panther installer now sees the drive, but tells me that I can neither install software on this drive, nor restart using it. You gotta' be kidding me.

The OSX manual says some Macs will need a firmware upgrade, but I don't see one at apple, and my mca originally came with OSX installed, so why would it need new firmare?


What now?

[DigiTechSupt]

Hi,
What model Mac are you running? Are these the disks that came with it?
Thanks,
Digidesign Tech Support