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awhitecat · Oct 30, 2006, 11:38 AM

I had 10.2.8. I am trying to install Tiger 10.4.3. The installation process is quite a long way along, but the laptop has 'frozen'. Any ideas?????????? Thanks for any help you can offer!

awhitecat · Oct 30, 2006, 11:43 AM

i haven't tried to shut it down and attempted a restart and reinstallation yet. thought i'd ask if anybody has suggestions yet!

kick52 · Oct 30, 2006, 11:53 AM

restarting is the only thing you can do.

restart, and try it again.

if the freezing doesnt go away, you may have a bad disk, or hardware problem

awhitecat · Oct 30, 2006, 11:57 AM

ok. i'll try restarting. i will just push down the power button.................. think i should eject the installation disk manually before shutting down?

JKT · Oct 30, 2006, 12:17 PM

In your thread on the iMac forum you say that you had to clear some space to have 3.8GB free for the install. Did you only clear about 3.8GB, or did you clear more than 3.8GB? It could be that you still don't have enough disk space to install.

Also, another possibility is that, assuming you are doing a simple up date, there is something incompatible installed in your 10.2.9 system that is interfering with the install process. To prevent any cruft from being transferred over, or incompatible system additions, I would do an archive and install rather than a simple update from 10.2.x (if that is what you did), which will require even more disk space (or if you have an external to back everything up to, I would even consider doing an erase and install).

mac128k-1984 · Oct 30, 2006, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by awhitecat

ok. i'll try restarting. i will just push down the power button.................. think i should eject the installation disk manually before shutting down?

I wouldn't, if tiger didn't finish installing then you probably don't have a bootable machine.

Reboot and hold the C key down and restart the process.

What install option did you pick? upgrade, archive install, clean install?

kick52 · Oct 30, 2006, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by awhitecat

I had 10.2.8. I am trying to install Tiger 10.4.3. The installation process is quite a long way along, but the laptop has 'frozen'. Any ideas?????????? Thanks for any help you can offer!

wait... do you mean everything on the screen has stopped moving? can you move your mouse?

awhitecat · Oct 30, 2006, 01:49 PM

it's ok............... i think!

i'll run through the sequence of events.

i was installing using the 'upgrade' option - you're right, i probably should have been more confident about using 'archive install'.

after quite a long time and stages of installation, i left it grinding away and went out to do shopping - it had been an hour or so and i am a girl, you know!!!!!!!

when i came back, it was showing the Apple page with the whirly-gig. i assumed it was still upgrading.

15 minutes later i returned. the screen was off-white and resembled running-water - i know these aren't exactly technical descriptions!

no key selections had any response, so i posted!

i ejected the update disc manually using my trusty pin, then shut down manually - i hate doing that!

i restarted, and hey-presto! Tiger 10.4.3 opened as the operating system! it SEEEMS to be running ok...............

so i do not know. anything i should do now????? any suggestions?
thanks everybody for your quick replies! this forum really confirms my belief in the apple community!

i'll keep you posted on whether i have any more problems.

kick52 · Oct 30, 2006, 02:07 PM

yeah, that should be ok..

try starting up from the disk again, goto disk util. and repair permissions, and repair the disk incase the force restart corrupted it.

if tiger gets very unstable or crashes alot, get back to us. if its ok, great