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Old 02-18-2008, 11:51 PM
DimaT DimaT is offline
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I tried to install it (MB ASUS Amberine, AMD 3700+, 1G memory, int video ATI 200, HDD WD 80G)) Yesterday it partitioned hard drive and started installation. This morning it say "Installing, remaining time - 54 hours" now it promises 51 hours. Seems like it is doing something (HDD is active, some times it read DVD). Nevertheless someone wrote it took 20 min. to install. Therefore could someone tell me WHY the installation process takes 3 days. Thanks.
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Old 02-19-2008, 01:16 AM
Rajmahal783 Rajmahal783 is offline
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What options did you choose for installation? Did you customize it? It should never take that long something is wrong.
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Old 02-19-2008, 01:27 AM
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Seriously... If it "likes" your hardware, it REALLY should only take 20-25 minutes to complete. 54 hours is WAY too long!

Running both 10.5.8 and 10.6.4 on my stinking AMD/ATi machine...
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Old 02-19-2008, 02:24 AM
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How did you partition your HDD? Do you use your old HDD?Sometimes HFS+ may NOT erase completely,--especially when it once formated as NTFS-- you can choose to repartition your HDD, rebuild partition map and erase with 10-times mode(requiring longer time to accompilsh)Above all,make sure you have checked the MD5 of your DVD ,set your HDD as active Primary partition(I suggest IDE) and chosen the right components in your "customised" installation.

Anyway,you must tell your hardware details in your signature.

Good Luck!!!
Regards!!

Kael
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Old 02-19-2008, 06:21 AM
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I tried to start it second time in order to repartition the HDD. I froze- "still waiting for the root device". The full spec. of the comp- HP a1230n-

Base processor
Athlon 64 3700+ 2.2 GHz

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2000 MT/s (Mega Transfers/second)
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Socket 939

Chipset
ATI Radeon XPress 200
Motherboard

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Manufacturer: ASUS
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Motherboard Name: A8AE-LE
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HP/Compaq motherboard name: AmberineM-GL6E

Video - int ATI x200

HDD- one WD 80G IDE master (I disconnected my SATA 250G)

Thanks
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Old 02-19-2008, 06:31 AM
sh0td0wn sh0td0wn is offline
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Play around with your 80GB IDE primary/secondary slave jumper settings..

That's my problem atm..
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Old 02-20-2008, 04:21 AM
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Now it stops on "Still waiting for the root device". Nothing helps. I tried to connect DVD as a master and HDD as a slave on the same channel, 2 master on the different ones, Master-Master and so on. nothing helps. DVD was tested, works fine. I can't understand why it does not want to boot any more?
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Old 02-20-2008, 04:47 AM
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lmao, sorry bud, title is pretty funny.

Make sure you have enabled all PATA/SATA channels. I remember having this issue until I changed BIOS settings.

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Old 02-20-2008, 07:00 AM
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I wont be suprised if its the ati x200 chipset thats screwing things up...
See my comments in this post:
http://osx.kbot.de/comments.php?DiscussionID=181&page=1
I installed tiger through vmware and than installed the ata driver so tiger works reasonably well now.
I'm still trying to get leopard so have not tested it native nor through vmware..

uphuck also has a nice comment about it on their site:
http://www.uphuck.com/Uphuck%20OSX86%20Development/dvdsupport.html
once again I did get it to work though using the different ata driver but if its compatible with leopard I do not know..
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Old 02-20-2008, 07:52 AM
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I'm surprised, 3 days? whew...



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