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tjradiohead
19-03-2007, 2:31 PM
I was looking ti get my macbook serviced, called them, they said thats fine, they will repair it etc, gave me the number for a local authorised repairer, and i set about backing up and formatting my macbook.
All fine until i get to disk 2 of installation, there is a big fat crack on the disk! it gets half way through installing iweb, then the install fails. not a problem i though, only ilife on that, ill just restart the installation, and not select to install ilife. but i dont know how i can do that? each time i restart, its asking for disk 2, ie continuing installation, not starting afresh?
Help! my warranty time is running out! :(
mikejenkins_uk
20-03-2007, 2:07 PM
Can you press Apple+Q to abort the installation program?
itsamac
20-03-2007, 4:34 PM
you can customise the installation of OSX. It is at the beginning after you select which disk you want to install it on. I would suggest unchecking the option for iLife.
ahin4114
21-03-2007, 9:37 AM
If mikejenkins answer didn't do the trick, then there's only a couple of options I can think of. It may be resuming the install off of the hard disc, not off of the CD, to make sure hold down option when booting to bring up the boot device options, make sure the CD is selected and try again. If that doesn't work you may need to wipe the drive, without using the disc utilities on the Apple disc of course....
You say you took a backup, if you have that backup in a bootable form then you could try booting off of that, then clear down the partition using the disc utilities from within OS X. Alternatively, if your backup is not bootable, you could try another bootable CD. Say a Windows XP CD. You should be able to get just as far as formatting the partition, then just abort the install and reboot off of your OS X disc. Not sure if there will be an issue here as XP can't read HFS formatted drives, but worth a punt.
Second option would be to try a bootable linux disc, these can read HFS partitions and might allow you to clear down the files/scrub the partition.
Final option, though I'm not sure if discussing this is sanctionable under forum rules, get a copy of the second install disc off a peer to peer network, burn it onto a disc and just continue with the install...