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Myztiq - Jun 7, 2006 - 11:37 pm

Ok, well I am tying to install OS X 10.2.4 onto my girlfriends iBook. She had problems when her father tried to install version 10.3. It is my first time ever working with a mac however I am a best buy geek squad agent so I know pretty much about computers in general. I insert the disk by holding down the space key after holding the power button, put the disk in, hold c. It starts up and I see the apple symbol with a rotating circle on the bottom. Then the apple symbol changes to a no sign like a little no smoking sign thing of some sort. What is wrong and what must I do? Thanks for all the help!

philippe99 - Jun 8, 2006 - 3:23 am

Hi and welcome to macosx.com

(1)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.h...tnum=106805-en
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.h...tnum=106464-en

(2) What is this 10.2.4 CD ? a CD deliver with the machine by Apple ?
10.2.4 is an update to an existing 10.2.0

(3) What was the errors the father encounters when installing 10.3 ?

(4) Was the iBook running old 9.x OS before attempt to install Mac Osx (whatever 10.2 or 10.3) ?
If 9.x, have you check
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117-en
that the iBook does not require a firmware update ?

Regards
Philippe

Myztiq - Jun 8, 2006 - 10:36 am

Alright well the 10.2.4 cd is the CD that came with the computer when shipped. There are 2 disks for that. I also have 3 software restore disks that are 9.2.2. The iBook has 800mhz/128mb/30gb/CD. The father was installing 10.3 when it started processing in japenese and continued for 3 days. That is all the information he has given me at the time. My goal is just to do a fresh install. Is it possible with the disks that came with the computer? I recieve a prohibited sign when I attempt to boot from the cd. I recieve the same sign with both 10.2.4 and 10.3. I have gotten the hardware test to run and the first time i recieved a cdrom error. then the second time no error. Could that be an issue? Thanks for all the help. Im looking into the links as we speak.

philippe99 - Jun 8, 2006 - 12:12 pm

> when it started processing in japenese and
> continued for 3 days.
?? The Japanese message ask for rebooting or does the father install the OS in japanese ? If lattest, what mean these "3 days" ?

Can you boot on a 9.x system ? If yes, do you see the hard drive ? If yes, use DriveSetup on this 9.x disk to wipe the internal drive.

Well, I say this because one month ago, I face the same problem of probibited sign when booting on Jaguar or Panther on an iBook Dual USB: in fine, the hard drive was dead.

Philippe

Myztiq - Jun 8, 2006 - 12:23 pm

Well he was upgrading from the 10.2.4 to 10.3 in English then after a few hours it began to show japenese symbols and he let that run for a while then got fed up and just turned off the system. That is all the information i have on that part since i was not involved in the upgrade process. I dont have any 9.x system disks. Only disks that i have are the 10.2.4 with me. Can i find a format utility elswhere that i can burn to a disk and format the drive? Thank you Philippe so far for the help.

Myztiq - Jun 8, 2006 - 12:29 pm

Sweet... Well i let the program run for a few hours on the prohibited sign and it eventually got past it. Now im on the Mac OS X Logo with Preparing Installation on it.. Wish me luck... Ill give you updates if anything else goes wrong.

Myztiq - Jun 8, 2006 - 6:00 pm

Okay new thing happening.

I let it get through the begining steps where i choose language and such. Until i get to select hard drive to install to. I get no options... Then i said okay probably need to set up a partition. So i use the partitioning software on the disk and attempt to partition. It says preparing drive.... then it just does not go any further. Am i out of a hard drive?

philippe99 - Jun 9, 2006 - 2:12 am

yes, maybe
When you boot on the install CD, there is a the main menu above, a way to launch DiskUtility of the CD; launch it and check if you can see the drive; if yes, format it as HFS+

From the article
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.h...tnum=106214-en
try, in ascending order of importance
* the safe boot
* the repair disk through disk utility
* the fsck (but I think this will failed as the father has faced problems with installaing Panther)

if you can see the drive through DU -> format it

Otherwise, booting on a commercialm repair disk like DiskWarrior or TechToolPro and checking if the drive appears

if not -> you know what
if yes and you can format it, then perhaps you have problem with your CD drive

Philippe

Myztiq - Jun 9, 2006 - 4:11 pm

Alright... Well i am using the disk utility... Click on the 27.95 GB FUJITSU that is shown.. Hit partition and select anything. Ive tried 3 different types and it frezes at the same point where it says "preparing drive: unmounting old old volumes" I need to go to work but i will leave that run while i attempt to find a free repair disk that i can use. The drive appears but i think it may just be because the lack of power in the utility that i am using. Possibly throw hard drive into my external bay and just use some Partition Magic or something of that effect on it to do a low level 0 and 1 partition... Then throw it back in and try some more. Otherwise i may just end up with a new hard drive that i can get for like 80-90 at best buy since i work there... Wish me luck and let me know if you think of why this may be happening. Its 3:10 now and ill be back at like 10:30 sooo... send me an update or if you want to send me an e-mail @ Compulatorman@wi.rr.com or text me at P1x3L4T0R. Thanks for all the help so far!

philippe99 - Jun 10, 2006 - 4:05 am

I had -ans till continue- to format tons of drive through DU and never find any pproblem, either on Mac drive, Windows previously formatted drive or even Unix/Linux NTFS one.
If DU fails, then something wrong on you hard drive.
DU is only a front end to basic/format Unix command

Philippe