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4,850 reads · 2010-02-04 – 2010-07-13
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Preparing installation

I decided to go for a retail install. It worked and I can now boot into it fine. The problem is, everytime I try to install something, it just says preparing installation forever. I can never get anything to install. I'm using this kernel…

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@johnathon Published 2010-02-04
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Snow Leopard 10.6
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4,850 historical reads · 0 curated field notes (from 6 dispatches) · 2010-02-04 – 2010-07-13
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@johnathon (6)

I decided to go for a retail install. It worked and I can now boot into it fine. The problem is, everytime I try to install something, it just says preparing installation forever. I can never get anything to install. I'm using this kernel :
SSE2/SSE3 - 32/64 Bit Kernel for Snow Leopard by qoopz →

What's wrong?

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Author Update #1 @johnathon 2010-04-14

Please help. Someone else must of had this problem. Is it a kernel problem? Is there another kernel I can use?

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