Bill, This happened to me somewhere in the past, I suffer from the same malady you mention. The only way I could get it to work was to be sure everything was backed up, then with the install disk I went into the Utility Utility and reformatted the drive, that took care of the problem. Then I did the software update to bring everything up to current standards, if you are wanting to stick with 10.2.8 you would want to skip this step.
John R. On Jan 14, 2005, at 3:11 AM, Bill Holt wrote: > Due to a peculiar form of stupidity which I've been working to perfect > for > some years now, I came to the decision that I needed to reinstall my > OSX > system. Bad move. > > I was originally running OS10.2.8 and now I'm stuck at 10.2, unable to > install the 10.2.8 upgrade. Here's what happens. I start the > installer > package, after a bit of gyrating it says, "There were errors > installing the > software. Please try installing again." It reminds me of the "lather, > rinse, repeat" instructions because there seems to be no end in sight. > > In between attempts, I did have MacJanitor run the full set of > maintenance > processes to no effect. > > After indications that the volumes which are not eligible for > installation > were disabled, the installer's error log includes the following lines: > >> deactivate: removing all cells from _volumeMatrix >> Selected volume "OSX" >> Mounted at: / >> OpenFirmware: pci/Ultra-Tek133P+ at E/@0:6 >> Partition type: HFS+ >> Partition map: disk1s6 >> Partition: 6 >> Protocol: ATA >> Media Type: Generic >> Volume Size: 7863582720 >> Error detected >> Name: NSRangeException >> Reason: *** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (0) beyond bounds (0) >> > > Keeping in mind the fact that I remember that I have the terminal > program on > this thing somewhere, but have no real handle on what to do with it, > I'd > appreciate any suggestions about what step to take next. > > TIA. > > Bill > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
