Having trouble installing Mac OS X beta on the following machine:
PM 9600
Sonnet G3 500 Mhz
384MB RAM
internal 4.5 GB FireballST (2 partitions:OS 9.0.4, and partition for X, both formatted in HFS +)
internal 18 GB Atlas III SCA
internal Zip 100
24X internal CD ROM
Keyspan UBS card
Orangemicro Firewire card
ATI RAGE 128 / 32 MB vram
Problem:
Installer freezes approximately halfway through the install
Either it just freezes the installer window (the thermometer bar just stays in one place but still pulses) or the installer screen vanishes and just a blue screen with empty title bar appears with the revolving beach ball. Must do cold shut down and boot.
Tried installing several times with and without the PCI cards (just the ATI) and it stalls at exactly the same place
I used the installer log window during install and it freezes at the same place with this message:
Installer[39[ - [NSPackageController(Protected)prepare]: Doing install with target
/private/var/tmp/
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Installation/Resources/pax
could not read compressed data: undefined error: 0
Installer [39] pax Undefined error: 0 : End of archive volume 1 reached
Installer [39] pax Undefined error: 0 : Warning! These patterns are not matched:
pax[55] Thread 0x30250: tossing reply message sequence 49777
Steps taken:
I determined that the installer CD is OK. Reinstalled X on my Powerbook with no problems.
Removed all cards except the ATI: same problem
Installed a different CD ROM: same problem
Repartitioned and reformated the Fireball and reinstalled OS 9 and tried installing X again, wth the same result.
What do I do next?
The only thing I can think of is that the Fireball has some bad blocks that Disk setup could not detect.
Help!
RB
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