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Can't upgrade 10.2.6 to 10.4
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Hello to all,
Here’s what I have:
Apple iMac, G4, 800MHz, SD RAM 1 GB, 80 GB HD, CD-RW/DVD-R superdrive, OSX 10.2.6
I just purchased a Seagate external hard drive. That’s working fine. I’ve backed up my hard drive onto the external hard drive already.
I also purchased Disk Warrior and Mac OSX Tiger. I’m so excited to start using it. But therein lies my problem.
I have tried to repair permissions, and after 7 hours, the progress bar is not even 1/4 way done. And from past experience, even it it were to get done, it would tell me it could not repair because of damage on the hard drive (at least that’s what I vaguely remember it saying).
I tried Disk Warrior, to no avail. I get the spinning beach ball and nothing else. I tried to install Tiger. Spinning beach ball, nothing else. I tried to install Tiger using the disk as a start-up disk. Spinning beach ball, nothing else.
I’m really getting frustrated! How can I install Tiger on my iMac??? Anybody???
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Apple iMac, G4, 800MHz, SD RAM 1 GB, 80 GB HD, CD-RW/DVD-R superdrive, OSX 10.4.8
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Since you have backed up your hard drive, you might just want to format the internal hard drive and then install Tiger. That will bypass all the problems with the drive.
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Administrator  Join Date: May 2000
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Unless this question is somehow related to Distributed Computing, it goes in either our MacOS Forum or our iMac Forum - depending on if the problem is caused by software or hardware issues.
How full is the internal HD you are trying to install to? If it's been at 90+% full for awhile, the disk could be enormously fragmented, which will slow down all verify/repair efforts. If this were the problem, it would be much faster to follow arkayn's advice than to sort out the existing install.
In Disk Utility, select the hardware icon for the internal drive (not the partition icon below the hardware icon). Now check the bottom pane of Disk Utility. It will show the SMART status for that drive. If it shows anything other than "verified" then the HD may be ready to fail.
Finally, jumping from Jaguar to Tiger is a big jump. The Tiger Install DVD may only be able to upgrade from Jaguar if it's a 10.2.8 install.
(Last edited by reader50; Oct 15, 2006 at 06:11 PM.
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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I did it!!! I did it!!!
I put in the original 10.2 CD install disk in and restarted from that. Then I erased the HD (with much trembling), installed 10.4, and did the migration thing with my old info that I had saved on the external HD.
Thank you to all who guided me! It is SO very much appreciated!
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Apple iMac, G4, 800MHz, SD RAM 1 GB, 80 GB HD, CD-RW/DVD-R superdrive, OSX 10.4.8
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