Why always failure at 45% of install of Base System Part 1?

Ok I have had Panther run on my iMac several times only to have it screw up and destroy itself hence reinstallation. However no matter what configuration I pick of Panther, It always either freezes up or kernel panics at precisely 45% of installation of Base System Part 1. Sometimes I run the installer log as I do this to see just what makes it give up at 45% and it gives me a type 2 pax error but the files it claims give it the error are irrelevant to the install and weren't asked for, mainly files from the Dutch language folder even though I install only the english version of the system to save HD space and speed up the install pace. After every time it fails the install I erase the HD verify and repair a few times to see that its good, and it still almost always goes down at 45% though sometimes it will go as long as 65% or 75% before going under. After about a week of this at a stretch out of the blue it will take the entire install without complaint, and then last for about a week and a half sometimes 2 weeks before it ruins itself again. No, my HD isnt too old, its only 2 months old, I have a GB of RAM and at the heaviest of load it only takes about 25-30% of total available to run all my stuff. Yes, it is the full retail install version of Panther.

Hello! The first thing that crosses my mind is the drive. You said it was about 2 mos old? When it was replaced was the jumper set correctly? I'm not real familiar with the imac setup. If the drive needed jumpering as master and if it's set to cable select all kinds of weired stuff can happen. Another thing to consider is a bad cd and lastly bad ram. If the ram is reading and writing incorrectly it will cause such behavior. I had a computer once that wouldn't complete an install from a known good cd and removing a problematic ram stick solved the problem. Tom

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