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trandal
02-22-2008, 04:25 PM
hey there all

i have a compaq laptop here (v3118au), nforce4 sata chipset (mpc51). thing is, how long is it supposed to take to get to the installation screen? the hard drive is connected via sata obviously but still has windows on an ntfs partition on it. i have made a separate partition for mac os x but when i tried to install it via zeph's 10.5.1 disc + medevil's nforce4 kext (which is compatible with my chipset), it just freezes or hangs after the something like following lines:

dsmos.........
ntfs volume , version 3.1

ive taken out the hard drive, and ive seen it boot to the stage where you have the Mac os x installation gui, so i know it gets past this stage without the hard disk and the disk is fine.

with the hard drive connected, ive left it going for an hour or so, but people say it should only take 20-25 mins. what should do i do besides download 10.5.2? coz ive got the update for 10.5.1 -10.5.2...
cheers

trandal