Installation SSSLLLOOWWWW on new iMac

I bought a new iMac today and the first thing that I'm doing is installing Leopard, which was included in the box.
First of all, the machine shut down during the consistency check. Not a restart, but completely shut itself off when it was about 4% completed. This is my 4th Mac, and that's never, ever happened before. Now it's running again, I let it do the entire consistency check and it's installing. It's taking FOREVER. Like an hour and a half as of right now and it's still going. When I upgraded to Tiger on mine and my wife's powerbooks, it took about 10 minutes.
I'm wondering, with the crash and the time it's taking to get this installed, did I get a lemon here? Is this normal? I've been using this machine for two hours now and am so far very unimpressed.

For some folks the leopard installation took a long time. I'm not sure why on your machine, but one thing I can suggest is to completely reset your computer and start over. This means resetting the PRAM and possibly the power management unit as well, and then formatting the drive completely and reinstalling leopard that way.
However, I'd wait first and see when the install finishes if there are any problems. Sometimes things just need to take their time, as was the case with Time Machine's first backup (mine took forever, but now runs smoothly and swiftly).

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Yes, as Shootistbond007 said, this is a user's forum. Adobe staff does come on here to help out once in a while, but for the most part it's just us users.
Where is says "member" on my icon it will have an orange box that says "staff." There is also the MVP badge for "Most Valuable Participants" which is orange too.
Here are a few links that might be useful to you: Error "Failed to Install" Creative Cloud Desktop application
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My creative cloud app wont install
If those aren't of any help to you, try contacting Adobe directly: 1 (800) 833-6687
Contact Customer Care
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I formatted my iMac 20" and did a custom install... I deselected some of the extras (omnioutliner, iwork trial, office test drive, etc). I had deselected the entire extras category at first and then selected one-by-one the applications I wanted such as Photobooth, iPhoto, etc. The entire iLife suite was unselected and then I selected I believe it was iWeb first and it automatically selected the rest of the iLife suite for me (which I thought was fine because I wanted all of those things installed).
I run through the installation... and now none of the iLife things are there EXCEPT iWeb... the auto-selection during the customization was a trick... even though it checked them off automatically, it didn't really install them. Total "My Bad" on Apple's part there!
Now I have to format that 250GB sucker again and re-do all this.... Sigh.

I have 22 years of experience with Mac OS installers scattered over 7 different Macintosh computers.
I have inserted my Install DVD and recreated the steps you took.
1. You did not need to reformat and reinstall a second time. You could have only installed the other iLife programs that you wished to add to your current installation by doing a 2nd custom install and only selecting the additional iLife programs you wanted.
2. Perhaps a lesson for us all in really watching what is happening. When I recreated the steps that you took in your initial install I noticed something that you didn't. iMovie, iPhoto and iDVD are each large individual installations of 197 MB, 465 MB and 1.8 GB respectively. However, they are intimately integrated and the installation of one requires a small amount of something from the other to complete the install. The installer is not intuitive, you selected a custom install and only selected iWeb. The installer doesn't know that the other parts of iLife are not already installed and followed your instructions to ONLY install iWeb and the small parts of the other three that allow them to integrate. If you had watched, when you clicked to install iWeb and the installer added the other three programs to the installation, the size of the installations for those three also changed to only 408 KB, the integrated parts.

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I bought Logic Studio 08 three years ago for 499 Euro (which is approximately 700 US dollar) and upgraded my IMAC 24 (bought at the same time)
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I also bought the USB Drive to install my Apple Products that i bought earlier (like Logic Studio).
When i tried to install Logic Studio from my DVD I was not even able to start the installer on my new IMAC. "Does not support Power PC" it says.
I called Apple for help. Guess what they said ?
It is true, Logic Studio is not working. You cant use it anymore.
No, we dont provide an upgrade for Logic Studio. Buy a new one for full price.
Hello ? Are you serious ?
The program i used to work with is just over three years old and you cant expect people to pay several hundreds of dollars every two or three years to buy the new version.
i put 2000 Euro down the drain and will try to return my new IMAC. I am really angry about that kind of "support".
I have been using Apple for decades but this new policy makes the once user friendly brand an absolute no go for me.

I have neither Logic 8 nor Final Cut Studio 2, but both seem to suffer from this particular bug; that is, installers that will not work in Lion/Mt. Lion & return a PowerPC dialog box, but actual applications that will run in Lion/Mt. Lion when properly installed.
If you search this forum since Lion has been introduced, you will see some suggestions to FCS2 users to actually install Rosetta from a Snow Leopard disc into Lion and it will install. It is not clear if this suggestion works for Mt. Lion.
I do not recall seeing anyone claim that this suggestion would work for Logic 8.
However, it has never made any sense to me that if you could install Rosetta into Lion and get a PowerPC Installer to work, why wouldn't a PowerPC application work; which of course they will not! Hence, I began to theorize that it must be a bug in a program written for Leopard/Snow Leopard that was cropping up in Lion/Mt. Lion as a "PowerPC app" problem, when it was really not one.
Also, I theorized that installing Rosetta into Lion/Mt. Lion could later lead to downstream problems which could become serious and indeed I read one post recently that may have confirmed that problem.
Finally I came across a blog by Jeremy Johnstone, Installing Final Cut Pro Studio 2.0 on 10.7 Lion w/o Rosetta, which ironically had NEVER been quoted on this forum before, that postulated for different reasons that it was not a Rosetta problem and described a workaround for installing FCS2 using Terminal. I was able to get independent confirmation on this forum that his installation method actually works!
So in theory, it should work for Logic 8 (as well as any of the other so-called PowerPC installer apps for programs that work in Lion/Mt. Lion, if there are any more), too. Before I could get a user of Logic 8 to test this theory, I came across Barney-15E's discussion of the roaringapps solution using Terminal.
I suspect that maybe roaringapps came up with their Terminal install suggestion for Logic 8 from Jeremy Johnstone (or maybe my posts here on this forum), as well, but I have no direct information one way or the other. As far as I know, roaringapps do not cite their source.
In any event, this Terminal solution is another tool in the toolbox for installation of these programs instead of the "install Rosetta" one that I believe is dangerous (and some suggest using Pacifist, too).
Maybe you can do some experimentation if you have these programs and report back to us, too?

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I will be migrating from a Win7(64) installation to a new iMac in the very near future. I will be using a new install of Lightroom 4 on the new iMac.
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Here you go:
http://www.lightroomqueen.com/2009/02/28/how-do-i-move-lightroom-to-a-new-computer/
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Vista installation was eventless and worked nicely.
Now the problem has begun...
I downloaded the latest ATI graphic card driver (Catalyst 7.7 for Vista 32) from the ATI website. The Catalyst software did not recognize the graphic card and installed nothing. I still have generic Microsoft standard VGA video adapter, which keeps me from playing any recent 3D games...
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Hi and welcome to Discussions,
I still have to find a verification for this, but:
Aplle has up to now always used the Mobility versions of the ATI and NVIDIA graphics chips in the iMacs and MacBooks, MacBooks Pro.
I assume that the in the new imacs, they are also using the Mobility version of the Radeon 2400/2600.
The ATI drivers you can download from the ATI/AMD website are only suitable for the Desktop Radeons, NOT for the Mobility Radeons.
ATI/AMD does not provide drivers for the Mobility Radeons, but are refering to the Manufacturer of the Computer for Drivers, which is Apple.
Sorry to say, but it seems you have to wait for a new BootCamp version which you include Driver support of the new iMacs.
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"Tiger Tiger burning bright ..." (sorry for the poetic diversion ...)
You can call Apple Customer Support, give them the serial number of the unit and pay $16 per disk to get new copies. But they may not re-burn Tiger anymore.
If that is the case, you have to consider buying Tiger disks from an online store, or move up in the cat family.
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If the sysem has Intel processor, you can jump up to Snow Leopard, which is $29 in the Apple Online Store.
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I just bought a new iMac and am having troubles downloading creative cloud installer. Its coming up with error 214 - I can't find any solutions for this. Can anyone help me? Im on mac OS 10.9.4

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brody, do you know why apple is keeping these flaws a secret?
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I suggest you take your inferences elsewhere - maybe call Apple and talk to them.
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