[Alpine]

Hello,

I sold my original 4GB WD drive from my Beige G3 233Mhz Mini-Tower last year and upgraded to a 15GB WD. I installed and ran Mac OS 10 fine, but when I have tried to do a clean install of Mac OS 10.1 I can't get it to install. Apple has sent me a new Mac OS 10.1 cd, but the installation fails with 3 minutes......

So I would like to get my hands on a 4GB Apple Western Digital hard drive so that I can attempt the install. I am at a loss.....For those interested here is my information below. Thank you.

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Any help would be greatly appreciated. (Beige G3 Machine ID: 510 with ROM Revision $77D.40F2) I have a 15 GB WD drive partitioned into two 7.5 GB partitions. I used to run OS 9.1/10.0.3 fine. I wrote zeros to the drive and reset up my partitions on the drive many times today. (This is a clean install of 10.1 with no other operating system.)
I cannot install OS 10.1 on this computer. It gets to about 3 minutes left and tells me that there are errors and I need to restart. (I have done this over 10 different times today.)

Here is my installation log:
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Target Selection
Disk Events

Selected Volume Extended
Mounted at: /private/var/tmp/mount02
Open Firmware: ide/@0:9
Partition Type: Apple_HFS
Partition: 9
Media Type: Generic
Volume Size: 7339

Disk Controller
Startup Disk Support
Installing with target /private/var/tmp/mount04
ERROR: Could not add file to archive.-pax: Invalid header starting valid header search.-
ERROR: Could not add file to archive.-pax: Invalid header starting valid header search.-
ERROR: Internal Archive Error.-pax: CPIO file name in header is corrupted.-
ERROR: Could not add file to archive.-pax: Invalid header starting valid header search.-
ERROR: Internal Archive Error.-pax: CPIO file name in header is corrupted.-
ERROR: Could not add file to archive.-pax: Invalid header starting valid header search.-
ERROR: Could not add file to archive.-pax: Invalid header starting valid header search.-
/system/library/privateframeworks/installation.framework/resources/pax: Could not read compressed data: undefined error:0
ERROR: Could not write file.-pax: WARNING! These patterns were not matched.
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[pizzasub]

That's really strange. Is your HD partitioned correctly?

That is, is the partition that you are trying to install on within the first 8GB of the drive?

[Alpine]

Originally posted by pizzasub:
<STRONG>That's really strange. Is your HD partitioned correctly?

That is, is the partition that you are trying to install on within the first 8GB of the drive?</STRONG>

I guess, I can only assume that it is. When I run the installer, there is only one partion that shows up, the others are greyed out. I have even resized the partitions into 3 different, making them all around 4.5 GB and I still get the same thing. (I always though that a hard drive is a hard drive. But that must not be true at Cupertino?)

[raferx]

I have a 4 gig HD from a Lombard 333 if you want it.
Don't know if that will work for you though...

[fulmer]

you must have the FIRST partition LESS THAN 8 GB for os x to install on this machine. Give that a try. good luck.

[Alpine]

Originally posted by fulmer:
<STRONG>you must have the FIRST partition LESS THAN 8 GB for os x to install on this machine. Give that a try. good luck.</STRONG>

If you look in my notes and installation log, it says this:

Volume Size: 7339

This is less than 8GB and it still won't install. I have also set a partition size at 6GB and it still won't install. I have even tried it on a 4GB Western Digital, which doesn't need to be partitioned and it still won't install.

[warpmoon]

Originally posted by Alpine:
<STRONG>

If you look in my notes and installation log, it says this:

Volume Size: 7339

This is less than 8GB and it still won't install. I have also set a partition size at 6GB and it still won't install. I have even tried it on a 4GB Western Digital, which doesn't need to be partitioned and it still won't install.</STRONG>

Ahhh, but is it the *first* partition on the harddrive?

[Alpine]

Originally posted by warpmoon:
<STRONG>

Ahhh, but is it the *first* partition on the harddrive?</STRONG>

When you partition the drive on a Beige G3 233 like mine and get to the installation portion that asks for the drive to install it to, you only get one partition. The other partition is grayed out and unavailable.

So I am assuming that the Disk Utility in Mac OS 10.1 knows that which partition is the 'first' partition on the harddrive. I certainly wouldn't be able to tell you if it is the first or the second. I am purely trusting the Apple Disk Utility.