Programs Will Not Install on System Drive

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Hey,
I had purchased my PowerMac PPC G4 on Ebay about a year ago and it came with OSX Tiger PreInstalled onto the system and it ran great. However, it didn't come with the disks. It only came with the Panther Disks. Despite this, at some point I had to format the system, but recently i purchased the OSX Tiger Operating System. I am having one problem however. Some software will not install on the system drive. I have a secondary Internal Hard Drive and an External Hard Drive and they come up in the list of places to install but the main system drive did not. I can't install it on the system and then if I try to install it on the secondary drive and Drag the Files onto the system drives application folder it won't operate on the drive though. So there is no option to install them on the system drive. And some software needs to be on the system drive such as Final Draft because it uses activations to function. I tried Verifying the Permissions on the Disk Utility with no avail and I tried even zeroing the drive and starting over again no luck. Another Problem is because due to this problem I can not install my printer.
Someone Please Help Me.
Thank You,
Rob.
 
Launch the System Profiler application (/Applications/Utilities/System Profiler) and tell us what it has to say about your:
machine model,
firmware version,
OS version,
hard drive,
RAM,..

Sometimes the OS upgrade will refuse to install if it does not have enough room to unpack on the boot volume. You cannot tell it to unpack on another volume, but install on the boot volume. That's just the way it is.

Have you tried installing the Tiger software with options to not include some stuff? That should actually say something about drive space, if that is the case.
 
Machine Name: Power Mac G4
Machine Model: PowerMac3,5
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.1)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 800 MHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per CPU): 2 MB
Memory: 1.5 GB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.2.5f1
Serial Number: XB1440B6KSD
Sales Order Number: 0100543896XB1440B61234123412341234
ATA Bus:

ST3120026A:

Capacity: 111.79 GB
Model: ST3120026A
Revision: 8.01
Serial Number: 5JT56X16
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk1
Protocol: ATA
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal
OS9 Drivers: No
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
Robs Mac:
Capacity: 111.67 GB
Available: 79.18 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: UFS
BSD Name: disk1s4
Mount Point: /

Maxtor 5T060H6:

Capacity: 57.27 GB
Model: Maxtor 5T060H6
Revision: TAH71DP0
Serial Number: T6HMKYXC
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Protocol: ATA
Unit Number: 1
Socket Type: Internal
OS9 Drivers: Yes
S.M.A.R.T. status: Failing
Volumes:
Boogie:
Capacity: 57.27 GB
Available: 15.46 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s5
Mount Point: /Volumes/Boogie

I did not tell it not to install certain things. It seems like the whole OS is installed. But that is the information.
 
2 things pop out.

Drive ST3120026A:
UFS = not a huge deal,

Drive 5T060H6:
S.M.A.R.T. status: Failing = bummerz

Replace the drive and try again.
 
Yeah,
The Drive Failing is th Secondary Internal Drive. However, this is the drive that all of the applications are trying to install on, and not the System Drive wich seems to be fine. Does anyone have a clue what is up? I don't want to replace a drive and pay for a new one if it won't resolve the issue.
 
You have two options (since you have 2 drives):
1.) Remove the failing drive, backup and reformat the current system volume as HFS+ file system format. Then reinstall the OS on it, and restore the files to it.
2.) Replace the defective drive and do what you want with it.

My guess is that the application installers are not able/don't want to install on a UFS formatted boot volume.
Anyway, remove the failing drive. See if the application instalers will install to the UFS formatted volume when there is no other option.
Probably won't, but it's something to do until you get a second opinion.
 
UFS is a Unix file system. I'm thinking it doesn't support resource forks, which is probably why apps aren't installing there.

Google will probably tell you more than I can.

When you select the Disk Utility "Partition" tab, you can select what format you want the partition to be. Take a walk around inside Disk Utility to discover the available options there.
 
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