4 Hours to Install OS 10.2? |
February, 01, 2003 1:22 AM |
kailmusic |
it seems to be taking forever to install it on my 7300/10 w/G4/350 card. Is this "Normal"?????? OS 10.1 installed in about 15 minutes. |
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RE: 4 Hours to Install OS 10.2? |
February, 04, 2003 1:52 PM |
tippingj |
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Sounds about right.. MOSX doesn't tell you that outright and infront most of the time- its all silent and done through logging or something. I had a bad HD too- the same files, in the same spot always came up bad with fsck. New 40gb Maxtor (7200rpm, ooo), and vola. Installed in 20m flat, and it is certainly alot faster, FSCK hasn't complained for a while. |
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RE: 4 Hours to Install OS 10.2? |
February, 04, 2003 11:55 AM |
kailmusic |
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THE PROBLEM WAS A BAD HD!! After several attempts I again checked the drive w/Silverlining and found it had 100s (!!) of media errors. I decided on a different partition strategy and used another (good) HD for OS X. Voila! I let it run and went to bed so I don't know exactly how long it took. In the morning I put in the 2nd Install disk and it ran smoothly. Now the machine is running 10.2.3 very stably. 7300/180 PC Compatible/NewerTech G4/350 1Meg Cache/288M RAM. Thanks for the replies, m. |
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RE: 4 Hours to Install OS 10.2? |
February, 03, 2003 9:34 AM |
tippingj |
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4 hours??! I run a Powerbase w/G3/400mhz 1024kb L2 Cache, OC'd to 467mhz. Without cache enabled in the system, it only took around 20m to install the OS.. |
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RE: 4 Hours to Install OS 10.2? |
February, 02, 2003 11:01 PM |
lei1 |
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If you do a custom install and eliminate all but the language packages which you are using the installation time is reduced dramatically. |
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RE: 4 Hours to Install OS 10.2? |
February, 02, 2003 7:57 PM |
joevt |
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I don't think the cache is enabled during installing. Maybe a new version of XPostFacto could install the cache control software when starting from a CD so that installing would take less time. |
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RE: 4 Hours to Install OS 10.2? |
February, 01, 2003 8:29 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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1 minute remaining...... Tyah right! Marty |
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RE: 4 Hours to Install OS 10.2? |
February, 01, 2003 3:42 PM |
ken882 |
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And curiously enough, the longest part of the installation seems to occur at the end, when it reports that the remaining time to completion is "about a minute". I recall reading something in one of the OS X readme files about this. I think when I ran the 10.2.3 upgrade that the "about a minute" portion of the installation took between 45 minutes and 1 hour. |
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RE: 4 Hours to Install OS 10.2? |
February, 01, 2003 1:34 PM |
fixitjc |
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Yes it does take a very long time On average it seams to take 2.5hr tho the installer says 4hr to start....it lies it will count down fast but will take around 2.5 plus any additional installs and cleanup (don't forget to run Disk First Aid to clean up the Permissions) |
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RE: 4 Hours to Install OS 10.2? |
February, 01, 2003 12:55 PM |
ken882 |
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I have a J700 and a Sonnet G4 800, and when installing to a 7.99 Mb partition on an ATI drive attached to a Tempo Trio card, the installation took about 1 hour. When I installed to a 2 Mb partition on a SCSI hard drive, for some reason it took about 2 - 2.5 hours. But it's never taken as short as 30 minutes nor as long as 4 hours. |
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RE: 4 Hours to Install OS 10.2? |
February, 01, 2003 11:56 AM |
powderhaus |
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it took about 30Min to install 10.1 and 1.2 (30min each) for me on a J700 with a G4 400. |