OS X Tiger Install DVD not working

gullwing · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:44 pm

Hi,

Purchased a new Tiger Retail Install DVD from Amazon and upon trying to Install on my PowerPC G4 with Panther 10.3.9, computer freezes with a grey screen and restart message. First time, it got to the choose language message, next time it froze at 2% install. Upon restarts, I get the same. The disk looks fine and doesn't appear to be a bootleg. Any ideas, before I return this DVD to the seller?

I even checked the DVD under a magnifying glass and the only questionable thing is that I see it was recorded in Canada whereas my Panther install disks were made in US ... not that it's necessarily significant.

Thanks,

eatdirt · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2011 4:19 pm

Are you still using your 80gb hard drive with the earlier version OS, or are you able to wipe it?
And/or.... is your external drive firewire by any chance?

cheers
matty

gullwing · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:04 pm

The 80gb (start up) drive has Panther 10.3.9. I want to do an Archive & Install of Tiger on it rather than a Fresh Install to avoid having to re-install a vast number of programs and third party apps and settings. Yes, the external drive is firewire ... what are you thinking?

eatdirt · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2011 1:26 am

I was just wondering if the process was getting bogged down reading from the disk, and whether you could clone the dvd to another hd and try booting from there.

gullwing · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2011 4:16 am

I don't know why the process would be getting "bogged down." There is plenty of room on the drive for installation, but it's a good thought and I was thinking along those lines last night. I seem to recall that my external drive is not recommended to be used for start-up, however it has my system back-up on it. I think I'll try starting up on that and installing to my internal drive.

gullwing · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:34 am

Well, after a 4-day ordeal of clean install and re-installing 20+ Applications (after researching and finding appropriate updates), I finally have a fine working Tiger OS X 10.4.11.

As it turns out, the original kernel panic was caused by my having a SCSI scanner and 2 removable SCSI drives hooked up. Apparently Tiger is less tolerant of Parallel SCSI than Panther is.

I post this in case another legacy user might find it useful info.

Now, if I can just find a (6.1.x Installer and 6.1.x Driver) download for my Retrospect Express 6.0 which came as a free bundle with my Maxtor OneTouch drive. The available 6.1 installer requires a license number which I don't have. I guess Express (x) makes it the free version.

eatdirt · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:42 am

Good work, Tiger is my preferred OS, I hope you like it.

gullwing · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:34 am

I love Tiger already!

I've spent the last year dealing with outdated and unsupported browser and flash player versions causing freezes, hangups and a general inability to view and use web sites properly.

I'd almost forgotten how responsive it's suppose to be.

Thanks.