OK - this may not be the best forum for this but here goes:
first off my machine is a PPC8500 with a Sonnet G4/400 and 512M ram.
ALso has Sonnet IDE card with a 10G and 20G drives and CD/RW,
10G SCSI drive and SCSI CD
USB/Fire Wire combo card.
All hardware works fine under OS9 or linux and was working fine under OSX
I have installed:
YellowDog 2.0 linux
OS 9
OS 10.1.3 (which was running just fine)
The problem you might ask? (besides the antique hardware)
I went to install the developer kit from apple. I kept getting strange errors that made me decide to just reinstall OSX and start over.
That is when the big trouble started.
Now when I try to install OSX (10.0.4) using XpostFacto I get to where the BSD subsystem installation finishes, then I get an error "unable to write file" and then a forced reboot.
There are no physical disk errors and the target partition is the same one that was previously working. I have tried reformating, and everything else I can think of but still no go.
I can boot OSX to single user mode from the CD, mount the disk partition and copy files to it with no problem. Can I manually install OSX this way?
(I know enough 'nix to be dangerous, but don't know how apple packages work)
Does anybody know if or how the partition table is modified? I noticed two new partitions for the OSX boot loader - which by the way I also zeroed out and reloaded.
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