Lion OSX install: "about one minute remaining" for 2 hours!... is it hung up?
I am loading Lion OSX over Snow Leopard (after doing Snow Leopard updates) and Lion the install is hung up with "about one minute remaining". It has been like this for over two hours. Should I do a hard shutdown and retry install or just let it go on overnight hoping that it will have finished by tomorrow morning? This is a new harddrive with Leopard then Snow Leopard and now Lion. Mid 2007 iMac. 3gig RAM.
Thanks.
tgrey wrote:
I ended up letting it spin its wheels over night and then did a hard shut down in the morning. After 5 minutes I started it up again and Lion installed smoothly.
Go to Applications > Utilities > DiscUtility and repair permissions for your HardDrive just to make sure nothing has been jostled around during the install. Never hurts to do this.
Good Luck
Pete
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