Installing Jaguar Should've Been Easy, But..., UNIX - a brave new world...? Options

[Teiwaz]

UNIX (Mac OS X Jaguar 10.2) has been nothing but a nightmare to install on my dual 1 gig mac...




I'm still struggling to get it on a separate 10 gig partition on my ata barracuda...I have never before experienced such a f***ed up install scenario...it kept me up till 4am last night...should've bin straightforward...



The installer craps out after getting past the "select language" stage...hmm. I thought it was a dodgy install disc, but it worked fine on a titanium laptop...I feel there is WAY more than meets the eye with this UNIX based beast...mmm...




I think UNIX is (once we all have accumulated knowledge of how it actually BEHAVES) a (very?) stable platform...but as for it leaving residual "invisible to OS9" files lying around on one's HD after lobbing everything visible that was OSX beta into the trashcan (I did this with beta OSX a while back when I first bought the dual 1 gig - I didn't want it on the same drive as my tried & trusted OS9) it has the ability to really mess with your computer's data in a real PHANTOM kind of a way when you try to do a fresh install of Jaguar (on a separate HD) simply because OSX beta used to be on the boot drive...aaargh! This appears to be the problem I'm having...



Personally, I feel that it was not the best move by Jobs & Co to actually have OSX (Beta) pre-installed alongside OS9 on the new G4's out of the box...we customers should've been given the option ourselves; ie: OS9 OR OSX ONLY on the boot drive to start with, ta very much, but no, TWO completely (alien to each other in terms of their kernels, source code etc) residing on the same drive...?! I guess that's what happens when one wants to sell truckloads of computers to people with a promise of "stability", "backwards" compatibility (er..) and a nice "windows style front end" presentation to attract the PC crowd...but what about existing mac people like myself? I should have been given the option to have either one or the other OS on the machine I bought...hmm..trying to please everybody can backfire on the existing mac customer, it would appear...



My only hope is that by backing up all of my s**t from my OS9 boot drive, and then doing a low level format to it(ugh...all those registrations and serial numbers that have to be reactivated...arg) will hopefully get rid of anything that is invisible beta UNIX off my damned boot drive!!

Then, maybe, I will be able to install Jaguar without a problem....thanks, Apple.

If all that doesn't work, I shall get myself a psychiatrist and send the bill to Steve Jobs...



end of bitter rant...

Anyone else experienced such outlandish install behaviour on their desktop G4's as a result of previously lobbing everything "visible" that was OSX off their boot drive when they first bought their desktop G4?

Any hard earned advice to offer...?

[Teiwaz]

Soif, thank you for your indispensable help! Very much appreciated...

However, I have late breaking news on this problem now...

The store I bought the dual gig mac from are telling me that they are 100% certain that the 2nd one of the mac's 2 processors is actually faulty - they are asking me to take the computer in after hearing what happened when I tried to install Jaguar, and that they have had this phenomena occur with a lot of dual gig macs (faulty 2nd processor - apparently, trying to install Jaguar highlights this "fault"); they want to swap out the processor card for another...luckily, I'm still under warranty!



But they could be wrong....? (I actually ran the mac hardware test CD but that didn't find a problem, neither did Tech Tool Pro 3, but who knows...)




Meanwhile, I also believe they may not find any fault with the computer, and that what you suggested above, if I follow those steps, will eradicate all of my problems (I have a feeling what you outlined is going to nail it.)

Will keep you posted and will let you know the outcome of all of this...



I'm sure OSX will rock once my mac is healthy...It sure does on my Titanium!

Thanks again for all your assistance...