Problems reinstalling Tiger

Hello. I try to reinstall my Tiger OSX on my Macbook pro and when I installning "disc 2" its stops and a problem accourd so it says "try once again to install disc 2".
I tried this 5 times now and when I looked where everything stops, its at "Iworks trial-files" who seems broken or something.
I cant do anything now. I dont even want "Iworks trial".
What should I do???????
Please help my restart my favorite-computer
/Johan in Sweden

Hello again. I try to do that now but I dont know how I can escape from this now and go back from start. Tryéd to put in disc nr 1 again, but my mac didnt accept that disc and it came out again. Dont see how I can stop this and restart the installation.....??
/Johan

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Problem reinstalling Tiger onto Powerbook

Recently I upgraded from my 12" Powerbook to a new Macbook Pro, leaving my dad my old computer. I erased everything and wanted to reinstall the system.
Everything went well with the erase and install until I got to inserting CD2. After that, in the middle of the process it shows an error and says I should try again. I eject the CD, it tells me to reinsert it and it happens all over again.
Anyone know how to solve that? It happens as it tries to install garage band as it would seem.

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions...
On the Powerbook. Check the boot disk for errors.
Shut down the PBook. Now, press the power button, hold down the C key, and insert the restore disk all at the same time. Keep holding down the C key until you see the Apple logo. An Installer window will open but DO NOT proceed with any installations, instead from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Disk Utility. In the DU window, select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab and click: Verify If DU reports errors, click Repair. When it's finished, from the Menu Bar select Utilities/Startup Disk and select MacintoshHD 10.x.x and click Restart.
Now try reinstalling Tiger.
Carolyn

Problem with reinstalling Tiger

I wanted to reinstall Tiger with X11, so I put in the disk and started the installation process. I went through the part where it asked if I wanted to save my home files and whatnot, and of course I said yes. However, a few seconds after the installation began, I wanted to cancel it. So I quit and tried to reboot to my regular Tiger on my Hard Drive. However, it didn't do this. Instead, I was taken to the installation setup again. At this point I figured the only way I could get back was to reinstall Tiger. However, it didn't give me the option of saving all my home files, so I selected the option that said "install tiger for the first time." When it was finished, my computer looked as though it had been wiped and I had lost everything. Fortunately, my applications were all still in the applications folder, and my old home folder was saved under a folder in my HD called Previous Systems.
My question is: is there some way to restore my home folder, because right now I have my official home folder, maxlivingston, and within that, another folder (the one with all my stuff), named maxlivingston. Additionally, is there a way to restore all my old preferences and stuff.
Oh, and one more question. Before, the Terminal shell was tcsh, now it's bash. Is this because I installed X11?

Well, all I can say is you sure went about things the hard way. X11 can be installed separately and doesn't require reinstalling OS X. Furthermore, you never, ever, abandon an installation that's under way. Bash is your shell because that's the default shell used by OS X. You would have changed your shell to tcsh.
As for your Home folder this article may help: How to get files from a previous home directory after Archive and Install.

Reinstalling Tiger on G4 problem!!!

I'm trying to reinstall Tiger on my G4 Powerbook (maybe 3rd time since I've owned it now), when I insert Disk 1 after it powers up I get the gray curtain followed by the following message:
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x002DEC28): Unable to find driver for this platform: "Powerbook5,8".
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00095698 0x00095880 0x0002683C 0x002DEC28 0x002BDFB4 0x002BDD7C 0x002BE7E4 0x002BEE50 0x000A9814
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x00000D030; DAR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Uknown)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.2.2: Mon Aug 22 18:43:11 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.5.11.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
No debugger configured - dumping debug information
MSR=00001030
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00095698 0x00095D98 0x0002683C 0x002DEC28 0x002BDFB4 0x002BDD7C 0x002BE7E4 0x002BEE50 0x000A9814
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x00529A00)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.2.2: Mon Aug 22 18:43:11 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.5.11.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic: We are hanging here...
Okay so since I'm still a newbie to mac's (this is my first one ever), I need any help anyone can provide. When I eject the disk the machine will reboot just fine with no erros. What is going on with machine and trying to reinstall Tiger???
Thanks,
Mike

AirPort, Logic Board, Mass Storage, Memory & Video RAM - Passed...
Forgot to mention... I don't trust AHWTCD that much, but it's all we've got basically.
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x002DEC28): Unable to find driver for this platform: "Powerbook5,8"
Well, if everything else is right and as you say, then seems the CD/DVD is damaged, or the Optical drive is bad, but if those install disks are CDs then it's not the Optical, only if we're talking DVDs for them... assuming we've eliminated the other reasons it can't find the driver.
Hmmm, I have a set of Install CD's that are miss marked number wise... but you would've noticed that on another install.
Do you have another Mac, does it boot into FW Target Made
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583

Reinstalled tiger and have problems now

I erased the hard drive and reinstalled Tiger 10.4.6 on my MacBookPro. I can't get any of my files to go from my external hard drive to my laptop. They'll transfer, but as soon as I unplug my external and restart my laptop, they're gone. Anybody have any suggestions as to what I should do? I'm at my wits end and regretting wiping the hard drive fully, even though I know its too late to change it.
Also, now that I reinstalled the OS, do what system updates should I do (such as Combo updates and the such)?
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

Hi mango815;
You said; "They'll transfer, but as soon as I unplug my external and restart my laptop, they're gone.
Exactly how are you trying do these transfers? More details would be helpful in order for us to give you any possible solutions.
Allan

Reinstalling Tiger: Software Update Missing Many Updates

I've seen a few similar topics on this issue, but only in so far as Software Update missing an update here or an update there. I am currently reinstalling Tiger on a Power Macintosh G3 B&W that has been heavily upgraded. The system specs are as follows..
1GHz PowerLogix G3 (using MAChSpeed to enable full processor speed since the included CPU Director software won't work in 10.4.11)
1GB of RAM
128MB Radeon 9200 Graphics card connected to an LG 1952 display and set to 1440x900 / millions of colors
I'd go on, but the remainder of the hardware upgrades should have no effect on Software Update to the best of my knowledge. Previously I had this machine running 10.4.11, and through the Software Update program I had installed all of the recommended updates, which included numerous security updates, Safari 4.0.3, and iTunes 8.2.1. Everything was running perfectly smoothly, but after having tested several software configurations and having decided on one in particular, I set out to reinstall Tiger from scratch in order to keep things as clean as possible. I've tried several different times now with the same results each time. Once the system is up and running, regardless of whether or not I install MAChSpeed before or after running Software Update, Software Update simply does not provided all of the updates that I believe are actually there. It did see and did allow me to install the following updates..
10.4.11 Combo update (I installed this one separately before any other updates)
Java 1.3.1 and 1.4.2 Release 2
iTunes Phone Driver 1.0
Migration and DVD/CD Sharing Update
Quicktime 7.6.4
Security Update 2009-005 (PPC)
J2SE 5.0 Release 4
Java for Mac OS X 10.4, release 5
[ditto], release 6
[ditto], release 7
[ditto], release 8
[ditto], release 9
Unless Security Update 2009-005 is meant to be a combined security update (doubtful), there are obviously several security updates that are missing. Also, I'm surprised that Software Update saw and installed Quicktime 7.6.4 but didn't see or install the latest PPC versions of iTunes or Safari. Safari 4.0.3 as I understand requires Security Update 2009-002, so naturally it would not see or install Safari without that update being installed first. While I don't necessarily mind installing updates manually (downloading them individually off Apple's support site and then installing by hand), I really prefer using Software Update to better automate the process. Up until now I have never had any problems with Software Update, but this problem is certainly aggravating. My primary concern is that I have no idea what updates are necessary and what updates are not necessary to ensure proper and relatively secure operation of my system, and I have no way of knowing whether or not Software Update will see any future updates (provided that Apple continues to support Tiger for a little while longer). If Software Update is missing crucial updates out of the gate, how can I be sure that it will see any further crucial updates that may hopefully be released?
I know that's part question / part rant, but I've been wracking my brain for the past few days over this one. Any information that could help solve this problem will definitely be appreciated, especially since my B&W is my preferred browsing machine.
Incidentally, my iBook, a Clamshell FW SE, is currently running the same setup that my B&W was previously running.. 10.4.11 with Quicktime 7.6.4, iTunes 8.2.1, and Safari 4.0.3, so as far as I can tell, this shouldn't be hardware related (my iBook is far less powerful than my B&W currently is). Also, a cursory glance at the Installed Updates list on my iBook definitely shows that my Software Update on my B&W is missing many updates.

I reformatted the drive first and did a clean install. I'm currently in the process of downloading the standalone installers for Safari 4.0.3 and iTunes 8.2.1. It's looking like that's the solution at present, but I'm still curious as to why Software Update won't see any iTunes or Safari updates within the current system configuration's capabilities (speaking to both apps possibly being cumulative). I can't see Software Update simply not having those updates because there is newer version out, if indeed they are cumulative, since that would mean that anyone reinstalling or upgrading on an older machine would be forced to perform some of the updates manually where not too long ago they would have been able to simply use Software Update as a "one stop" solution.
Oh well, maybe I'm just being too picky . I've had to deal with running around in circles to find software updates for manual installs for years with Windows systems, and Apple's "one stop" Software Update system was a wonderful, welcome change to that.

New Problems in Tiger Classic (or iMac G5)

Hi folks,
I have the last version of Managing Your Money ever released and we have always been able to use it in Classic without any trouble at all. However, since we got Mac OS 10.4 (or maybe is was since we got the iMac G5; since they were nearly simultaneous, I'm not sure) MYM and/or Classic seems to display symptoms of a memory or other resource leak. That is, every window I open takes longer to open than the last one. Eventually, the program becomes practically unusable and I have to restart. If I keep using it without restarting, the iMac will eventually freeze and the force quit window won't even appear.
We have never had this problem on previous versions of OS X, nor on previous models of iMac (we've used OS X with classic on two different G3 iMacs and a G4 iMac).
Does anyone know of any differences that should be significant? Are there any Classic extensions that are known to have problems in Tiger or on G5 iMacs?
Sincere thanks,
Bill
iMac G5 20 inch Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I don't know MYM does it make no difference if you allocate more memory to it with file>Get Info>Memory, please?
My own G5 runs classic exactly as my older G4 does, and since my configuratin is hardly likely to match yours, what does that prove?
If it was my Mac, I'd copy the Classic System Folder, set the copy in Classic System Preference, set its Extension Manager Set to Mac OS (Base) then Restart Classic and reinstall MYM, which should now have nothing to interfere with it…

A login problem with Tiger

Hello,
My computer recently has been holding up really fine, until yesterday.
I was playing around with the demo version NASCAR Racing 2003 Season, when all of a sudden the game began to freeze up and then crashed. After a few minutes, the dock just froze when I tried to reopen the game, preventing me from opening any applications nor shutting down my Mac. Therefore, I forcefully shut down my computer after a few attempts to restarting from the Apple Menu.
When I turned on my Macbook, the problem became much more serious. When I logged onto my account, nothing happened. All I got was the pointer and the desktop.
I tried to solve the problem by running Disk Utility, repairing the disk permissions, but the nothing fixed the problem.
Now I need a solution without having to reinstall Tiger on my Macbook.
Any solution is welcome.
Regards,
Wampus Cat

Never install something like that without first making a full backup (clone) of your system on either an external or (if you have a desktop computer) an extra internal drive. If you had done that someone could say "just boot up your backup and clone it back it your primary drive". I'm not saying this to make you feel bad but as "baltwo" has pointed out, you don't have any good alternatives outside of going through the whole re-install/reconfigure thing. Next time.....

Uninstall leopard on my quicksilver g4 and reinstall tiger

I have run into serious problems with leopard on my quicksilver mac. I get the kernal panic. I have tried disk warrior and it shuts down.I tried to reinstall tiger, which ran perfectly in the past. It tells me that I have to upgrade panther to 10.3. and then upgrade to tiger. I had been running Tiger for 2 years but it doesn't seem to know that. I can't get into the computer to do this. I repurchased Panther and tried to reinstall it and it says I can not do that. There was a system error. Does anyone have any ideas for me?

It is very likely that your problem is not with the OS version you are running but with your hard drive. Try booting from an installer optical disk (preferably the Leopard retail one) & instead of running an installer, run Disk Utility from its "Utilities" menu. Try running its "Repair Disk" function on your internal hard drive. If this hangs or is unable to repair all problems it finds, you will probably have to reformat the drive. *Note that this will erase all data on it, so you must have a backup of at least your user files or you will lose everything!*
Some background info:
Disk Warrior is a fine utility but like any other such utility, you must run a version of it that is compatible with the Tiger/Leopard file system to prevent problems. Additionally, if you try to boot the computer from a Disk Warrior CD, it must include an OS capable of booting your Mac model. Refer to the Disk Warrior web site for more info about this.
If your Tiger installer disk says that you must upgrade the existing OS, it is what is known as an "upgrade" disk, not a full or retail Tiger installer. It would not tell you that you have to "upgrade panther to 10.3" because 10.3 is Panther. It is telling you that it is only capable of installing Tiger (10.4) over Panther (10.3). Thus, if you have any other OS version such as Tiger or Leopard installed, it will tell you that it can't do the install.
All retail & some other installer disks offer several install options, depending on what they find installed on the target drive. See for example Installing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard for more info about this. The option & target drive you choose determines if the installation is possible or not.

Can't reinstall Tiger 10.4.6

I previously upgraded from the original Panther 10.3 on my Power PC G4 with the Black retail upgrade disk with the large silver X (v10.4.6) that I purchased from Apple and everything was fine for 2 years. This month I installed a new internal ADA 320 Gb drive (properly using the correct jumper in the back) and installed Tiger on this drive using the install disk. Now I reformated the original drive (60Gb Mac OS EXtended) and can't for the life of me get the Install disk to reinstall Tiger on the reformated drive. It gets half way thru and freezes. The same thing occurs on my 500 GB external LaCie Drive (Firewire). I have tried to install using cutom and just the basic essentials to no avail. I would like to be able to have an alternate drive to start up from but so far have been frustrated. I even reinstalled the original Panther on these drives (performed easily and no problem) so that the Tiger Install disk can do an archieve and install but alas to no avail. Anybody have any suggestions as to what's wrong with my Tiger Install Disk.

It sounds to me like it could be the disc, or it could be the optical drive. You have to reduce the equation to one unknown by using a different drive or different disc to see which one (if either) it is.
Another way to get the OS onto that drive is to do a complete bootable backup clone. Of course this won't be as clean an OS as a fresh installation but will work until you have the issue sorted out.
Cloning And Backup Tools
A bootable clone is an exact copy of your drive which is capable of booting your computer. Making a copy of your computer which is capable of actually starting the computer requires special copying procedures. Some people just back up data files but if you have problems you have to reinstall all your operating system and all your applications. With a bootable clone you just start up from the backup drive and clone back everything.
To copy files from one hard drive to another hard drive you can use:
[CarbonCopy Cloner|http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html] (donationware)
[SuperDuper|http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html] (shareware)
[IBackup|http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/index.html] (free)
The Restore function of Disk Utility included in OS X. [Kappy's directions|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8799711#8799711]
[Tri-Backup (commercial)|http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html] (payware)
[Silverkeeper|http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper> (free) - version 2 has some issues (references: [1|http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/backup/index.html#d12jan2009],
[2|http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/backup/index.html#d13jan2009]) and it is recommended Tiger users stick with 1.1.4.
[Kappy's Backup Software Recommendations|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9065665#906 5665]
[Overview of Mac OS X Backup Programs|http://8help.osu.edu/1247.html]

Reinstalling Tiger: Some Questions

My Appologies if this has been covered before. Something is broken on my system. I'm not sure exactly what it is but there are certain software applications that cause kernal panics on my system while working fine on other systems running 10.4.11. I've done a lot of work trying to deal with the problem and managed to eliminate most of the possible causes. So the next stop in my attempt to solve this problem will be to reinstall Tiger. I've never done this before. Since I'm into audio production I have a lot of material on my hard drive that I would prefer not to reinstall. (Logic Pro Studio, for instance take about 4 hours to install.) In some cases I no longer have the installers for programs i purchased of the web. (At the time I didn't know what those little brown boxes where so I deleted them.) So the first question is can I reinstall OS 10.4.11 without reinstalling everything else? I have the original install disks for my computer (a 22 month old intel iMac 1.83 with 2 gig of ram). I can't remember if these will install all the way up to 10.4.11. I've done a system backup using the Lacie backup software and a lot of my important stuff is actually on 2 external hard drives. What else do I need to do before starting this and what's the procedure? Thanks

Hi-
To reinstall the OS without reinstalling all your software, you would use the Archive and Install option. It may also be good to "preserve user settings".
Depending on your install disc version, may then need to update to 10.4.11. Download the Combo updater and that will get you up to snuff in one shot.
Before you do the reinstall, double check that all your backup needs are current.
One note, though the Archive and Install does replace the OS files, there is a chance that this will dilute the troubleshooting, as the presence of all third party items can't be discounted as suspect.
Still, a troubleshooting step none the less, just thought I'd mention that...

Reinstalling Tiger after Leopard

Quick question for you Apple experts!
I have loaded Leopard, and much as I have enjoyed the few days I've had it running, sadly, my TallyGenicom printer no longer works. I've e-mailed Tally and they say "IF we make a new driver we will let you know." (Very reassuring!)
So the only way I can get back to printing seems to be to reinstall Tiger. My question is - is there likely to be any problems or repercussions installing an older system over a newer one?
Many thanks,
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Andrew Stewart4 wrote:
Quick question for you Apple experts!
I have loaded Leopard, and much as I have enjoyed the few days I've had it running, sadly, my TallyGenicom printer no longer works. I've e-mailed Tally and they say "IF we make a new driver we will let you know." (Very reassuring!)
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Many thanks,
Andy
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If you printer company is not going to provide support, I would dump them and get a modern printer that likes Leopard rather than going backwards just to accommodate a single item. There are printers that cost less than Leopard costs.

G5 Firmware update necessary? Random problems since Tiger upgrade.

I have a PowerMac G5 (7,2) with a 1.8 GHz PowerPC 970 (2.2) CPU running under boot version 5.1.4f0. I have added memory.
I apparently upgraded from OS 9 to 10.2.8 without running any firmware updates. I quite frankly don't remember. I have since upgraded to Tiger, directly from 10.2.8. (There were OS X versions in between, I'm told. *wry smile*)
I am now having random problems.
The machine won't sleep. Display will but tower won't.
On occasion when I boot it up, I get the blue screen and nothing else; I have to shut it off with the power button and restart.
iPhoto (ancient version) is running agonizingly slowly (better since I did the fix suggested in the iPhoto forum in answer to someone else's question).
A short while ago, (in the last week) I noticed that some of my rules in mail ceased functioning (while others work fine). I deleted and recreated them to no avail. I previously had serious Mail problems that I fixed thanks to Mr. Gost, but those were largely of my own creation, so this latter might be unrelated.
If I'm reading things on the various boards and in Apple's Support forum right, in order to truly fix this I should deal with the firmware, to wit:
1. temporarily remove the memory I added (not factory-installed)
2. somehow (handwave) install OS 9 OR boot up from a OS 9 disk
3. download and install the 5.1.5f2 uniprocessor firmware update that Software Update keeps insisting I need.
4. reinstall the added memory
5. If I've reinstalled OS 9, reinstall 10.2.8 and then reinstall Tiger. (because I can't go directly from 9 to 10.4, right?) Otherwise, a clean install of Tiger might be a good idea.
Is this accurate?
Should this solve my blue screen and non-sleeping issues?
Are those issues indicative of a serious problem, or just annoying?
Is there more than one firmware update I should be using?
Will updating my firmware at this point create more issues than it is worth (as I'm seeing that many people had issues after firmware updates?)
Also, these problems seem to have intensified since the update to 4.10. Can I go back to 4... um... the last update? If so, can you point me to directions?
Sorry to be so verbose. I'm obviously more than a little behind the bell curve on this upgrade. The version of iPhoto I want (6) isn't even sold anymore.

Software updater insists the firmware update I need is 5.1.5f2. The only information I can find on this is on a 2004 page at apple support (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117) that states:
These firmware updates cannot be installed when the computer is started up from Mac OS X. In order to install them, you must start up the computer from a Mac OS 8 or Mac OS 9 System Folder on the computer's hard disk (not from a CD).
When you click on the technical details it says:
Remove any third part RAM before installing this Firmware Update. After the Firmware Updater has verified that it has been completed correctly, you can re-install your third party RAM.
There are other firmware updates, but they don't appear to address the issues I have been having, and they're not what Software Updater says it needs. Am I missing something obvious here?
I will check the USB devices. Thank you.

Reinstall Tiger, now I have to use another iTunes authorization?? Help...

I just reinstalled Tiger after cloning my HD to a back up. I transferred my music back to my original HD, now music that I have purchased has to be authorized before I can listen to it. I don't want to waste one of my 5 computer authorizations on the same computer... How do I fix this?

Check out this link: http://playlistmag.com/weblogs/ipodblog/2006/01/deauthorall/index.php?lsrc=mwrss
Keep in mind though that it can only be used once per year! For most people though, that shouldn't be a problem.

Help!!! I Reinstalled Tiger But I Can't Access My Files

I reinstalled Tiger OSX 10.3 on my PowerBook G4 circa 2004. Now I have all sorts of unexplained problems.
I can't open Safari or iTunes or Dictionary. When I try to open them, from the restored Desktop, nothing happens.
I downloaded Tiger 10.4.11 and when I click on it, it attempts to open it but it can't. I click on the icon, it moves a tiny bit and nothing happens.
Can anyone tell me what happened to my old files? When I rebooted and reinstalled from the original PowerBook G4 software install CD, I requested that my old files be archived. I can't find any of them except the Word files.
Any help on this is greatly appreciated.
thanks,
john flood

Hi John!
Did you create a back-up prior to the installation?
Exactly which model PowerBook G4 is it?
What is the Processor speed?
What size is the Hard Drive, and how much free space is available?
How much RAM is installed, and is it original or added?
What type of internal Optical Drive is installed?
Which version of OS, was pre-installed when maufactured?
Which version were you using before this reinstall?
"I reinstalled Tiger OSX 10.3..."
What type of disc did you use?
Was it the original install/restore that was shipped with the PowerBook, the Panther Install CDs, or a Tiger Install DVD?
"When I rebooted and reinstalled from the original PowerBook G4 software install CD,"
Was this done after the above described reinstallation?
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