Mac OS X cannot be installed form this disk

[mulo]

"Mac OS X cannot be installed form this disk"
what do you say? - never herd of it before until it happened to me just minutes ago. attempting to install leopard onto a PowerMac Dual G5 from a FireWire drive.

 

[GGJstudios]

Where did the install disc come from?

 

[mulo]

backup of a retail leopard disk, that I lost. - ran it over with my office chair.
thank god for backups!..

 

[GGJstudios]

Although this thread is about Snow Leopard, some of the solutions here may apply:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2130966&start=30&tstart=0

 

[mulo]

I don't even get to that point. I get that message as soon as I click the installer.

cannot install ~from~ this disk.

 

[GGJstudios]

I don't even get to that point. I get that message as soon as I click the installer.

cannot install ~from~ this disk.

Yes, I know it's "from this disk". That thread discussion appeared to address the same issue, but there's not much I could find elsewhere that addresses that particular issue. Since it's a copy, the disk may not work. It could be the copy didn't work correctly.

 

[mulo]

your right the image on the FW is broken. The original image is fine however, I made a copy on a thumb drive, I can boot off that no problem. that just doesn't solve the problems since G5's cant boot off thumb drives. I'll try to remake it and see if I get any different results.

edit: I'm putting a copy on the internal G5 volume as well, see if that turns out any better.

 

[mulo]

having problems creating the image on the internal drive, keep getting this error
"could not restore - device not configured"