[Macpartners] OSX 10.4 iso disks

[Paul H. Bauer]

I created a set of discs from the images and tried an install upgrade 
on a G4 this weekend. The install disc booted fine and started the 
install but stopped after about the first 1/3 of the installer script 
on disc 1. I suspect there is something wrong with these images.







>Hi Felix,
>
>The trick is use Disk Utlity on a Macintosh to burn the ISO images 
>to CD and use that to install Mac OS X 10.4.  What application did 
>you use to burn the ISO image to CD?  I have validated that the CD-R 
>created using Nero on a PC fails as you have experienced.
>
>Tiger cannot be installed from a virtual disk on pre-Tiger systems 
>because of the underlying file system changes necessitate have the 
>booted OS being Tiger which is why you couldn't install from teh 
>mounted disk images.  The ISO images are for CDs, so burning all 
>four to a DVD won't yield a useful disk as you discovered.
>
>We will track down the issue with the image not being bootable when 
>burnt from some applications.  By using the ISO format, the CD-R 
>created from the image should be indentical and independent of the 
>burning tool or platform on which they were burned, but alas you're 
>finds as well as our latest test show that not to be the case.
>
>A brief definition of ISO images can be found at 
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_image.
>
>Thanks,
>Jon
>
>At 04:30 PM 8/3/2005, Felix Kreisel wrote:
>>Friends, pardon my ignorance, but...
>>
>>I just downloaded the MIT OSX 10.4 package, which consisted of four 
>>Tiger iso images plus an Xtools iso . Then I tried installing from 
>>them. However, while I can expand each .iso image to a virtual disk 
>>and run the Installer on disk 1, I cannot use the Installer to do 
>>anything productive. After I start the 'Install Mac OS X' program 
>>on the 'Mac OS X Install Disk 1'  virtual disk, the program tells 
>>me to reboot, asks for the privileged user password, shuts down the 
>>system, reboots it, and ... nothing. I burned the virtual disks 
>>onto individual DVD disks, but Disk 1 is not bootable. I  also 
>>burned the virtual disks onto individual CDR disks, but this Disk 1 
>>is also not bootable.
>>
>>What is the trick? What are iso archives? <:-|
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