Skydog
01-08-2009, 11:31 PM
Hello guys I'm new here, nice to meet ya.
I've been able to go as far as actually starting the installation. When the installation reached about 8% everything froze... It refused to go any further. When I tried to restart and try installing it from the DVD again, it wouldn't go past the beautiful apple loading screen... :( Any ideas?
My bet is it stores the boot info for the dvd on the drive, so let's say I should format the destination drive again and start all over again - but what if it fails again?
My system:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2,4Ghz
Asus P5N32-E SLI with nForce 680i chipset
2GB DDR2 RAM (667Mhz)
Club 3D GeForce 7600GT 256MB
4 Hard Disks:
- 500GB Maxtor (sata) (contains Vista)
- 160GB Seagate (sata) (contains XP)
- 40GB Seagate (sata) (contains Ubuntu)
- 35GB Samsung (ATA) <<---- This one was supposed to contain Mac OS X.
It might seem weird to you that I chose the smallest one, but I'm all about... testing it out before actually ruining my budget on a real Mac.
All help is appriciated. Oh one more thing - I had to unplug all the drives cept the samsung one cause Darwin was going HAYWIRE when they were plugged in. Overall, this darwin thing is... damn weird. I know it does it's job in most cases, but it's been acting strangely on my machine since the first boot-from-dvd.
I've been able to go as far as actually starting the installation. When the installation reached about 8% everything froze... It refused to go any further. When I tried to restart and try installing it from the DVD again, it wouldn't go past the beautiful apple loading screen... :( Any ideas?
My bet is it stores the boot info for the dvd on the drive, so let's say I should format the destination drive again and start all over again - but what if it fails again?
My system:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2,4Ghz
Asus P5N32-E SLI with nForce 680i chipset
2GB DDR2 RAM (667Mhz)
Club 3D GeForce 7600GT 256MB
4 Hard Disks:
- 500GB Maxtor (sata) (contains Vista)
- 160GB Seagate (sata) (contains XP)
- 40GB Seagate (sata) (contains Ubuntu)
- 35GB Samsung (ATA) <<---- This one was supposed to contain Mac OS X.
It might seem weird to you that I chose the smallest one, but I'm all about... testing it out before actually ruining my budget on a real Mac.
All help is appriciated. Oh one more thing - I had to unplug all the drives cept the samsung one cause Darwin was going HAYWIRE when they were plugged in. Overall, this darwin thing is... damn weird. I know it does it's job in most cases, but it's been acting strangely on my machine since the first boot-from-dvd.