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Cant Clean Install Gives an Error at the End!!!

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James Cole

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Jul 15, 2007
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San Antonio, Texas
So I tried clean installed... purchased lion... burn image to dvd... restart on lion dvd and wipe the hardrive... everything goes smooth until the end it says "can't download the additional components to install mac os x" and cant get past that.. wifi is on... and I even tried connecting the mac via ethernet to the modem and no luck!!!

Help guys!! I use this computer to work and have loads to do tomorrow!!
 
I was able to clean install from a DVD fine last night. Have you tried starting the process directly connected to your modem?
 
You probably weren't connected to the internet even though you thought you were.

Did you confirm your internet was up and running?
 
Quit bumping your post...

If you removed the .dmg from the installer and burned your dvd properly it should install just fine. if you've already wiped your drive and this installer DVD is not working then your own option really is to try downloading Lion again from another Mac and burn a second DVD. Make sure you follow all the steps for how to do it correctly, don't improvise.
 
How did you launch the clean install? Did you boot holding C to boot from DVD, or did you boot holding Alt/Option to get the boot loader? If you did the second, did you select the DVD or did you select the Recover (I think that is what it says) thing. I ask because if you boot to the DVD, it should take for freaking ever to load to the install but it does not need to be network aware for the install. If you boot to the Recover portion, it will try to connect you to Apple's servers and seems to be buggy. I had this issue then realized that I was being too quick to click on things and it takes a few moments (a lot of moments) before I could actually see the DVD option.
 
It boots automatically... Since there is not an alternative os to boot from... It just starts reading the disc and starts the lion installer...

As to how I burned the lion dvd, I used the exact instruction in the macrumors post... Download and burn dmg image into dvd using disk utility...
 
James Cole said:
As to how I burned the lion dvd, I used the exact instruction in the macrumors post... Download and burn dmg image into dvd using disk utility...
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Well I can assure you that this method works. Try the installer again and this time open up the installer logs so you can actually see where it errors out and why. Post what that log tells you and maybe you'll get better responses. Other than that all I can recommended is re-downloading and burning another copy to try again.
 
How about popping in your Snow Leopard install disc...erase and install Snow Leopard and then just upgrade to Lion. Time consuming, but would give you a close-to-clean install since your bootable DVD isn't working right.
 
PatriotInvasion said:
How about popping in your Snow Leopard install disc...erase and install Snow Leopard and then just upgrade to Lion. Time consuming, but would give you a close-to-clean install since your bootable DVD isn't working right.
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Absolutely doable but you also have to upgrade SL to 10.6.8 before you can run the Lion installer. It's just an annoying additional step in the process.
 
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