help with Tiger download

[jertom20]

Newbie here and not much experience.
have an emac with the G4 processor, 10.2.8 OS.
trying to install 10.4 Tiger, plenty of space (31 GB) available but won't install.
have run disk utility, repair disk and get "incorrect number of thread records"
apparently there's some problem with the hard drive that disk utility can't handle.
question: what/ if any after-market repair disk would you recommend?

 

[Darth.Titan]

Your best bet is to forget repairing the drive and reformat it. A freshly reformatted drive won't give you those filesystem errors when installing.

Obviously you'll want to back up anything important before doing this.

 

[jertom20]

Your best bet is to forget repairing the drive and reformat it. A freshly reformatted drive won't give you those filesystem errors when installing.

Obviously you'll want to back up anything important before doing this.

reformat? you mean to re-install existing 10.2 OS from disk?
I'll give that a try.

 

[finnschi]

No not reinstalling os 10.2 !!!! He ment Erasing the harddrive BEFORE the install of 10.4!

If you put in the Tiger disk, wait til it loads, choose your language and then on the top menu you will see "utilities" click on that and then disk utility, and tehn choose your drive and then say erase, make sure you clicked on the DRIVE not on the partition
its like this:

HD Seagate 60Gb
Macintosh HD
partition2

Click the red one, then "Erase" choose HSF+ Journaled (could me also mac osx journaled or something

Then close disk utility and continue installation

Have Fun with the Tiger ROOOAAAHHHHRRR

 

[finnschi]

reformat? you mean to re-install existing 10.2 OS from disk?
I'll give that a try.

To Format a drive means to wipe all the data from the Drive, to totaly Clean it up , has nothing to do with what kind of OS its using

 

[jertom20]

No not reinstalling os 10.2 !!!! He ment Erasing the harddrive BEFORE the install of 10.4!

If you put in the Tiger disk, wait til it loads, choose your language and then on the top menu you will see "utilities" click on that and then disk utility, and tehn choose your drive and then say erase, make sure you clicked on the DRIVE not on the partition
its like this:

HD Seagate 60Gb
Macintosh HD
partition2

Click the red one, then "Erase" choose HSF+ Journaled (could me also mac osx journaled or something

Then close disk utility and continue installation

Have Fun with the Tiger ROOOAAAHHHHRRR

That did it! thanks for the help.

 

[finnschi]

That did it! thanks for the help.

No problem !