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naquaada · 01-19-2008, 05:08 AM

I also had problems installing with a 500GB Samsung on my nForce 4 system.

Check in the BIOS which mode your harddrive is set to. Set it to Auto or LBA. A harddisk in that size must be set to LBA, I had problems when it was set to Large mode. Boot from the DVD, enter Disk Utility, format it to HFS+ (journaled) as selected by default. Select in 'Security Options' 'Overwrite with zeroes'. So every block of the drive came in touch with the HFS+ filesystem, and the disk is checked for errors during this progress. This may take a while, after this you can install. If it works, you have to use an USB keyboard, PS/2 drivers aren't available after the installation of zaphyroth's actual image.

Other things: remove all unneccessary drives from the System. On some mainboards not all SATA ports aren't used for booting, on my Asus board it's only Port 1 and 2 (of 4). Check if you have set the 150/300 MB-Jumper if your mainboard supports SATA-2. The DVD-ROM should be on Secondary Master. Maybe you have to disable USB Legacy support in BIOS if you have problems with mouse or keyboard.

Before partitioning take a look at my installation system: http://osx.kbot.de/comments.php?DiscussionID=33&page=1#Item_1
It saves a lot of time, trouble and torn-out-hair. That's my partition scheme for a 500GB HD (465,8 GB available)

1 - Main Partition 218,06 GB
2 - Recovery Partition 15,90 GB
3 - Shared Systemdata Partition 30,90 GB
4 - Data/Media Partition 200,90 GB

Maybe you can skip the Tiger preinstallation if it works directly with leopard, I needed to fix a kernel panic on my ATI system.