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Old 01-20-2008, 12:24 AM
benzene benzene is offline
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Hi there, i installed lots of times many Tigers on quite a bunch of different machines and was always,
after some trying able to spot the problems i got during installation.
But not with Leopard.
I am stuck on installation right with the first package to install and the apple installer doesn´t give me any clues
about what excactly the problem is.
It stops with an installation failure window stating that the Base Package failed to verify and thats all.
Installer log says much the same .
A file i/o error can´t be the reason the disc is okay and has been checked several times.
In some other forum i read that this problem can also occur on real macs when installing leopard because of the use of non apple compliant
ram chips, but this has not been proofed.
Am i the only one with this problem?
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Old 01-20-2008, 12:25 AM
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It might be a good idea to menton some system specs:
Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego
ASUS A8n-VM-CSM nforce430
XFX 7300gt 256mb
pATA HDD
The system worked perfectly on tiger except sata which i made working with a cheap usb fix.
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Old 01-20-2008, 01:11 AM
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Me and a friend had this problem too, me on an empty SATA disk, he on IDE. After I reformatted the partition selecting 'Overwrite with zeroes' it worked. I think the error appears because MacOS checks the integrity of the BaseSystem package. If it wan't completely copied and/or has any kind of problems it's to understand why the installation says failed.
Tell about your system specs, how DVD and HDs are connected and partitioned.
2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.

My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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Old 01-20-2008, 02:20 AM
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Thanks for your help

My HD is primary master, one partition only for osx.
DVD is secondary master. This setup is choosen since the pc is intended to be used only as a osx machine and to prevent waiting for root device
problems.
Nulling the hd doen´t help, i´ve tried it out 10 minutes ago.
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Old 01-22-2008, 01:23 PM
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I think i tried every possible combination now..... no luck.
Maybe it´s because of my nforce 430 chipset? has anybody tried it on that?
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Old 01-22-2008, 04:01 PM
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Tried to burn another DVD, maybe in lower speed?
2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.

My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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Old 01-22-2008, 04:17 PM
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Don't waste your dvds ... Restore the ISO on a partition and install Leopard from it !


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