Tiger Install "Stalls"

[bobditch]

I tried installing Tiger last night and it just stalled.
It gets to:
Preparing the Disk>Verifying Destination Volume
and just sitts there.
The first time, after about an hour, a window popped up stating Install failed - try again.
I was able to get to my startup disc only by holding down "D" while turning on.
I tried install again, it got to the same point and stalled for 2 hours before I aborted it.
G4 400
896MB Ram
10GB space on 20GB drive
2 vedio cards and SCSI card both installed by Apple

What do you think? Bad Disk?

Thanks, Bob

 

[xappeal]

Ram

Maybe a bad disk, but most likely a RAM problem.

You can skip the disk check during the install, try this first. When that fails, it will be a RAM problem.

Install using at least 256meg, trying to use as much authentic ram as possible.

 

[yellow]

I'd start up Disk Utility from the installer and repair the drive ("Repair Disk", not permissions repair).

 

[IJ Reilly]

I've seen this exact problem with DVD installs. It could be a hardware issue, as previously suggested, but it could also be a less-than-perfect DVD drive -- which is what it turned out to be the one time I saw it. The CD version of the Tiger install discs solved the problem.