I had in my Collection by now the Kalyway 10.5.1 DVD which *used* to work but I noticed from last time that not each Boot of the DVD would work and Kalyway would not work at all on any other Machine. I had grabbed as a test the Leo4All V3 DVD and wrote this to a DVD+RW – I wrote this at 2x Speed and tried it out, this failed half way through so I guessed the DVD itself was at fault. I wrote another DVD+R at 2x Speed with the same thing and Spent Friday trying to get this working.
I left it installing on the Dell GX620 Machine and when I got back, it was still trying to install but the DVD was not spinning – no amount of leaving it would let it finish that Install. I tried the Kalyway and either of them struggled to get to the installer, remember the Dell was the only one which at least installed last time. My Guess was the Drive was heating up and thus a problem. I now got a new Error – “Waiting for Root Drive”.
I tried across a few machines and once again could not even get to the installer without a APIC Error, only the Athlon 64 3700 had some chance to install. Upon Installing and rebooting, it started loading up then I got the “Waiting for Root Drive”, tried disabling the SATA and still the same problem, even went as far as removing as much hardware as possible in the form of PCI Cards and still got nowhere fast. I had about enough of this whole process by now, I had wasted some of Friday and some of Saturday and ended off with 2 Machines which were now blank.
I pulled out my Windows XP Pro CD and got to work putting an OS that works on these machines – I feel that my time trying to get a 2nd OS X machine for Free were over. I have a real Mac anyhow so I am not that bothered, I would have liked to have a Laptop running OS X but this also is failing all the time on the install, so it was not meant to be.
