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Failure to download components preventing Lion install
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MBP 2 core duo. 3 Gb RAM
Bought Lion on USB 3 months ago , wouldn't install. Forum suggested to wait for some sort of "enabler" to be released.
Tried installation on a clean disc with no os on it x 2 yesterday. Down loads some components then fails to proceed and says that some components could not be down loaded.
Should I forget Lion and hope Mountain Lion will work or should I just stick with SnowLeopard.
Thanks for any suggestions
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I presume you mean "Core 2 Duo", not a "2 core duo." Lion only installs on Core 2 Duo processors or later (around 2007 or 2008 time frame). Which exact machine do you have?
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Originally Posted by ibook_steve 
I presume you mean "Core 2 Duo", not a "2 core duo." Lion only installs on Core 2 Duo processors or later (around 2007 or 2008 time frame). Which exact machine do you have?
I was going to enquire along the same lines, but none of the Core Duo machines accepted 3 GB of RAM.
If he has 3 GB of RAM, he MUST have a Core 2 Duo, which *should* run Lion.
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When Lion installer says its "downloading components" it isn't. Its copying stuff from the installer to the target drive. Could be an issue with your disk.
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I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
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Thank you for your posts, my machine is a core 2 duo, ifixit sold me the 3 gigs as a2 gig stick and a 1 gig stick these show up in about this mac?
My mac is out of apple care so i replaced the dvd with a 1 Tb hdd and partitioned it.
Each night Superduper clones the boot hdd to one of the partitions , just in case of a crash.
The mac boots from the clone ok so I cannot see why installation of lion shold be a problem
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If you press Command-L that should open a log. With a pop up you can tell it to show all messages (instead of just errors). This way you should be able to see at which step it hangs.
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Also, you can run Disk Utility over it and see whether it finds any errors (NOT permissions check - permissions are completely irrelevant to an OS install, as that overrides any existing permissions anyway).
How much free space on the internal drive?
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Wait: which disk are you trying to install to?
The Lion installer repartitioned the boot disk to add a recovery partition that it then boots into to install the OS.
If you've got a weird partition scheme already going, the Installer probably isn't able to resize the existing partitions and create its own, which would explain why it fails at copying the necessary boot and installation routines to the non-existing recovery partition.
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