Leopard Installation Woes
Posted on October 29, 2007
Filed Under Installations |
The installation seemed to be going just fine. As the guided tour showed, I just popped in my DVD, clicked the install button, then clicked restart. It takes quite some time to install, so I poured myself a nice cold mug of Asahi and watched the Dragons even the Japan Series. I thought the installation completed, and then I relized that perhaps that was just the installation of the installer. When the “real” installation started out the estimated time was over three hours, but after about 30 minutes it was more than half way complete. The last time I saw was 15 minutes left on the estimated time indicator, then I received the infamous “Install Failed ” message:
Install Failed
Mac OS X could not be installed on your computer
The Installer could not install some files in “Volumes/Macintosh HD”. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.
Click Restart to restart your computer and try installing again.
So, I clicked restart, and was booted into Leopard installer again. When selecting the Disk to install to I was shy of the required space. That was odd because I had 12 GB free space before the install. I attempted to quit the install so I could go back to Tiger and view the Apple Support website to see if anyone else had similar issues. When asked what I wanted to boot, I realized that although the installation failed, it did not revert to Tiger, as my drive to select was my Macintosh HD 10.5. When I restarted it seems that Leopard was installed fine although it does appear that I did not get all the files. I checked to disk using the disk utility and everything checked out just fine, and I did not need to repair it. Anyways, everything seems to work great (for now).
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