Hi Bill, Well, I may miss the mark on the exact nature of the error but in doing so I will remind you of some of the basic guidelines followed for problematic OS X installations should your problems continue.
My guess on the error is you have installed in a pci slot an ATA-133 controller for support of additional internal hard drives (Ultra-Tek133P). This could be your problem child. I?m hopeful that your primary boot drive is not attached to this card. I would proceed to temporarily remove it while you perform your install and subsequent upgrades. For problematic OS X installs, it is also recommended that you remove third party upgrades, both internal and external. This will include RAM, extra video cards, miscellaneous pci cards and unplug external usb and firewire devices. The general theory is to ?simplify the equation?; reverting as much as possible to the original stock factory configuration. Once you overcome your problem, I would be looking for firmware updates for your pci ATA card as well. Good Luck! Ward Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 1041 Bardstown Road Louisville, KY 40204 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us http://www.mactown.us From: Bill Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 03:11:40 -0500 To: <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> Subject: MacGroup: installation advice 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> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050114/17c5a571/attachment.html
