10.2 Install CD question...

[Catfish_Man]

...my friend and I were attempting to install 10.2 (6C75, and 6C92). Both images create a CD that begins to boot, but then hangs. When started in single-user/verbose mode it goes normally until it says "panic: we are hanging here". I remember reading about this problem before, and am wondering if anyone has some advice. The computer we're installing on is a G4 450 (AGP graphics v2.9) with 320MB of PC100 ram, a Que Firewire CD-RW drive (currently unplugged), 2 USB keyboards (one currently unplugged), and an Adaptec SCSI card. It's running 10.2 6C48.

 

[voyagerd]

do you use diskcopy to make the cd's?

 

[MacMaster]

LOL! I remember getting the "we're hanging here" error when my dad's iMac 400 DV got really messed up while running osX. While booted in os9 he saw a folder that was taking up lots of space so he deleted it. Then he went back to osX and the thing crashed the crash to end all crashes. It turned out that the folder that he deleted was used by osX somehow. It took him about 5 days of almost non-stop work when he was home to get it running again. He'll never mess with the osX system folder again... I'm not sure if this has any connection to your problem though.

-MacMaster

 

[Rower_CPU]

Have you tried taking out the SCSI card?

SCSI can cause all kinds of weird boot problems...thank God for Firewire!

 

[Catfish_Man]

I'm using...

Originally posted by voyagerd
do you use diskcopy to make the cd's?

...Toast Titanium 5.1.4, set on "Mac Volume".

 

[AlphaTech]

Re: I'm using...

Originally posted by Catfish_Man
...Toast Titanium 5.1.4, set on "Mac Volume".

Did you check the little box that allows you to make the cd bootable??? Why didn't you use the 'Copy' from the Toast menu?? Is this the OEM copy (included with burners) or the retail version?? If it's not the retail one, that is the issue.

 

[pianojoe]

Re: 10.2 Install CD question...

Originally posted by Catfish_Man
...my friend and I were attempting to install 10.2 (6C75, and 6C92). Both images create a CD that begins to boot, but then hangs. When started in single-user/verbose mode it goes normally until it

Did you actually BURN your CD? You will not be able to install the system from a volume mounted from a disc image. You need the thing on a CD physically, inside your Apple-firmware built-in CD drive.

One more thing: Don't mount the image before you burn it, this will spoil it.

 

[Catfish_Man]

OK, it's installed now...

..but it has *major* issues. When you start up it starts up normally until it gets to the screen that normally has a progress bar showing what it's doing. That progress bar is missing, although the window is there. After a few seconds of that, it goes to the normal blank "logging in" screen, and sits there switching into console mode for about 1/10th of a second every few seconds. Any ideas?

 

[JonD]

Burn the disc as a "Disc Image" in Toast. Just drag the disc image you downloaded there and hit burn... worked for me And now I'm running 6c98, and it's niiiiiccee. Way better than 87, which sucked IMHO.