I've learned my lesson too. Just start over. B.O'
On Jan 14, 2005, at 6:46 AM, John Robinson wrote: > 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> > | 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>
