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This is a long painful saga with a failed PowerMac G5. The original system drive failed a week or so ago and after a valient attempt with DiskWarrior to resurrect the drive, I was forced to format the drive and reinstall the OS. But it would not let me: mid-way through the first Tiger Install disc, I'd get the message "There were errors during the installation" and to try again. Which I did, numerous times.
So I acquired another drive, reformatted it and set it up for Tiger install. Same problem. I did have the foresight to jot down some of the error messages in the Installer Log. With the original failed drive, I had gotten the error message: Error Detected. Then "NSGenericException". And then the explanation: "Some files for AsianLanguageSupport may have not been written correctly (code 1)"
Today, on the newly installed drive, I got the Error Detected and "NSGenericException" with the explanation "Some files for Media Files may have not been written correctly (code 1)"
Also, I have formatted with HFS+
Any clues? Is it the G5 itself? Did I just spend close to $600 bucks on 4 extra gigs of RAM and a hard drive and its the G5?!

I can't be certain, but it sounds to me like you have a dirty/damaged Mac OS X installation disk or a flakey SuperDrive. It's also possible that your new RAM is causing a problem, so if the install disk looks good (I'm presuming you're using the system disk that shipped with the G5 or a retail copy of Mac OS X 10.4, not the system disk from a different model of Mac) and the SuperDrive seems to work OK with other boot disks (DiskWarrior, for instance), then you might try removing the new RAM and see if that makes any difference.
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