unable to install tiger

Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
got it today,

i was to install tiger in my imac G4 from 10.3.9

dvd inserted, imac restarted, dvd content read,

when it came to preparing the disk,

it freeze at "Verifying destination volume"



i tried upgrade, archive and install,

but it freeze at the same point,



any help would be much appreciated.



thanks

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 8
    sladuuchsladuuch Posts: 67member
    Try using Disk Utility to verify your Panther disk, check permissions, and do all that stuff. If basic maintenance won't work, try installing on another disk to see if it's a DVD problem.
  • Reply 2 of 8
    sammicksammick Posts: 416member
    I bought a family pack of Tiger and had no problem installing it in one computer, but it failed in the other two. I called Apple and after a week or 2, I received a new DVD which installed flawlessly.



    It might be a defective disk---I would check with Apple.
  • Reply 3 of 8
    firehcfirehc Posts: 368member
    i tried verify disk permission, but still doesnt work,

    i tried to install in my ext hd, it worked,

    so it is not the dvd disk.......



    anything else i should do?
  • Reply 4 of 8
    sammicksammick Posts: 416member
    As I said my original DVD worked in one computer, but not in two others. The new DVD worked in all of them--it still might be a defective disk---call Apple. The DVD is under warantee.
  • Reply 5 of 8
    firehcfirehc Posts: 368member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by sammick

    As I said my original DVD worked in one computer, but not in two others. The new DVD worked in all of them--it still might be a defective disk---call Apple. The DVD is under warantee.



    yeah, but it did install tiger on my ext. hard drive

    i'll call anyway. thanks
  • Reply 6 of 8
    sammicksammick Posts: 416member
    it might be an incompatibility with the specific hard drive on your computer
  • Reply 7 of 8
    firehcfirehc Posts: 368member
    things are not good here,

    use repair disk in disk utility, the whole thing stopped in the middle.



    so i erased the disk and reintalled tiger, things went well,

    when it first ran in tiger, the spinning beach balls came for a while everytime a click sth,

    software update: itunes and dvd player ran well, but 10.4.1 just freeze at optimizating disk.



    use verify/repair disk again, it freeze at midway.



    any suggestion to help this poor soul. APP just expired 3 months ago, damn, if this is the harddrive problem.

    i did use the APP hardware test disk and everything was fine.



    any utility that i can check the harddrive?
  • Reply 8 of 8
    firehcfirehc Posts: 368member
    update:



    run repair disk under tiger dvd, and got this:



    keys out of order

    Rebuilding catalog b-tree

    ....

    the volume could not be repaired

    Error: the underlying task reported failure on exit.



    so i erase the disk again, and make 2 partitions,

    but when i run verify and repair disk again,

    no problem found, <<<<<is my hd ok????



    i then install tiger on partition 1,

    things went ok, i rerun verify/repair permission in partition 1, everything repaired.

    but i was not allowed to run verify/repair permission in partition2, only verify/repair disk.....why is that,



    ok can anyone tell me if my hd is ok or not?

    thanks a million!
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