Problems installing on G4

[curtis]

I am having a VERY bad week!  Dead minimig and now I can't seem to get MOS installed on my G4.

D/L'd the image, burned the CD and popped it in the drive.  Hold C forever and it boots up!  Click on install and wait.  Copied around 1444 files to the hd then hung.  Hmmm.  Hit the reset button and try again.  This time it got up to 3000+ files copied before it died.

Next attempt, format the hd prior to installation.  Danged thing timed out and shifted over to slow mode.

Bad hard drive you say?  Okay, possible, let's try another known good drive.  Same thing.  Drives attempted are 60 Gb (original) and 40 Gb.

I'm suspecting a bad CD burn at this point in time.  However, suggestions would be appreciated.

The computer is a bog standard G4 400 MHz Sawtooth in which I did drop in some slightly slower RAM (100 vice 133), but I don't think that would affect installation.  Would it?

Curtis

[curtis]

HD is definitely 80 pin.  Didn't think to check the CD.

I'm going to pull the slower RAM out and run with just the original stick and see what that does also.  The other sticks check out okay in other machines.

Didn't think to check the MD5 on the download.

Already checked the jumpers on both hard drives.  Saw that thread myself!

[curtis]

Nope.  It's in perfect shape.  Was booting OS 10.4 until I stuck the MorphOS CD in and held down C.

Make sure the G4 doesn't have exploded caps.

[curtis]

First thing I tried was just clicking on Install and let it do it's own thing, accepting all the defaults, except for keyboard and language settings.

I then tried to format first then install.  That's when the sucker took so long the system down-shifted and essentially shut down.

When I get time, I'm going to also try a smaller hard drive, say 1-2 Gb and see what happens.  Won't happen until the weekend due to other priorities during the week.

Are you attempting a full format, or quick format of the hard drive?  I think I have gotten by with the quick format command for my partitioning and installation of MorphOS in the past.

[curtis]

No joy in Mudville.

I've tried every combination of RAM, hard drives, iso's, and various and sundry boot options all to no avail.  BTW, with just 256M RAM, this sucker is dog slow!

I'm thinking a fresh Tiger install on this one and onto ebay it goes then I'll pick up a Mac mini and start afresh.