[Ti] Problems installing Tiger on Powerbook G4

[John Sparks]

Hello:
Have you tried cleaning the Disk?
DVD movies hang up and cleaning them often allows you to finish the  
movie.
John
On Feb 16, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Andre Truter wrote:

> Andre Truter wrote:
>> I have an old Powerbook G4 (550 MHz, 512 MB Ram) which I bought  
>> second
>> hand.  I had OS X 3.9 on it and worked fine, but the disk was full of
>> applications that I never use and only 2.4 GB space left.  It has  
>> been
>> through a few hands before I got it, so a lot of users have been  
>> created
>> and deleted, apps installed, etc.
>> I did not get any of the original software media with it, just the
>> Powerbook as is.
>> So I decided to buy Tiger for it and do a clean installation so I can
>> have a fresh system and have the media.
>>
>> But, I am not able to install Tiger on it.  The installation will  
>> get to
>> the part where it installs the BSD system and then it would tell  
>> me that
>> the installation failed and I should try again.
>> Sometimes it would get to a point (Normally during installing the BSD
>> system and once a few steps further) and it would just hang  
>> there.  It
>> says "Writing files: 11% Completed" and 7 minutes remaining, but  
>> nothing
>> advance.  I can still use the mouse, open menu options and look at  
>> the
>> log.  The last message now is "Extracting files"
>>
>> It has been sitting there for at least an hour.
>>
>> I swapped the hard drive with another one, but still the same  
>> problem.
>>
> A bit more info.
> I suspected the DVD reader to be faulty, so I took an external USB  
> disk,
> and copied the DVD image onto it.
> Then I boot the PowerBook from the USB disk.
> Installation starts up fine, but it gets stuck at virtually the same
> place.  Now it gets to 12% of Installing the BSD Subsystem.
>
> So, the DVD reader is not the problem.
>
> Can it be the hard disk (both of them?) or maybe the DVD was mastered
> incorrectly, so my image on the USB disk is also faulty.
>
> Anything else it could be?
>
> With the last number of attempts it has always stopped at the same
> place.  It only once managed to get past the BSD Subsystem, but  
> then it
> got stuck at 11% of the next section.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Andre Truter
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