[X4U] Tiger does not install here

[Xavier Noria]

On Apr 29, 2005, at 6:25, John Baltutis wrote:

> On 04/28/05, Xavier Noria <fxn at hashref.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Before the update to Tiger from an up-to-date Panther I repaired
>> permissions as usual. After a couple of dialogs the Tiger installer
>> says it is verifying the disk, and after a while it says there was an
>> error and a restart is needed.

>>
>> I've attached a handful of lines from the bottom of
>> /private/var/log/install.log, any ideas? I work daily with this
>> computer and never had a problem with the disk. What would you
>> recommend to do?
>>
>
> Boot with your Panther install CD, select Utilities->Disk Utility and
> repair the disk.

I didn't remember the installers came with Disk Utility. That was  
helpful because it showed the problem. When the Tiger Installer's  
Disk Utility was reparing the disk more than 50 traces "Overlapped  
extent allocation (file \d+)" were logged, an issue Disk Utility  
cannot repair.

Disk Warrior can fix that, but I was lucky someone documented what  
that means, and a way to fix it in single user mode with fsck:

     http://www.themachelpdesk.com/

(For the record, the option for find(1) is "-inum", not "-inode".)

Curiously, it was enough to remove three of the files for fsck -fy to  
report a clean disk. After that the installation of Tiger has been  
apparently OK, I am writing this from Tiger's Mail.app already.

Thank you!

-- fxn