Did you check your drives for corruption using disk utilities like disk doctor and disk first aid before attempting an install? What drivers were installed initially? If you can get the machine running, and the drives are not corrupted, update all the hd's you can access using the OS 8.6 disk driver updater, assuming you tried to update them with the 8.5 installer disk. This is backwards compatible and will not hurt an install of earlier software all the way back to system 7.something, and I believe that the read me that comes with 8.6 recommends this as well.
Is it possible that the cd is corrupted or damaged? Check the installer cd with disk utilities like disk doctor and disk first aid. If that is the problem you are probably hosed as far as your new disk working flawlessly. You could also use a program such as Tome viewer to extract certain files, install them on a hd, and check them with some disk utilities and verify them with resedit, or use resedit to verify the resources of some of your important existing files such as system, finder, system resources, things like that. Possibly a corrupted ROM image on HD or cd? My 7600 120 with a G3 upgrade went from 8.6 to 8.5 to 8.6, just like you are attempting, and I didn't have a problem like you are describing. The only time I've had trouble like that was when something was severely corrupted or had a hardware problem. If your only initial problem was being a little slow on startup, and you can get back to that state, do the usual things like weed through extensions, check your video settings, look for file sharing problems, possibly turn off ram startup tests. Also, did you install the ram and processor, then start to install the software immediately? You should have checked the hardware out independently first, then attempted the install. Easy to say in hindsight from miles away. If not, I would revert back to my original hardware, try to get it to run, then check all the disks for corruption, and try to replace any corrupted system files. Then test your new ram, one piece at a time, then try the new processor. Give it a workout each time, check the ram with ramometer or some other ram checking utility. IF this all works, and after you've had a day to calm down, and still want to, I'd try a fresh install of 8.5, then an upgrade to 8.6, remembering that if you have succesfully already updated your disk drivers from the 8.6 upgrade package, there is no reason to "update" them with the older drivers of 8.5. Kevin > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PCI PowerMacs) > Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 14:55:44 -0400 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PCI PowerMacs) > Subject: PCI PowerMacs Digest #1266 > > Subject: OS 8 install failure > From: fluff@riverland. net. au (frank luff) > Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 11:12:15 +0930 > Message-ID: <20020409111215.3BB47%C3000000@riverland.> > > I am trying to instal OS 8.6. The disk I have is 8.5 with the 6 update > on a second disk. > I got it, after a battle, on to an external H/drive, messages it can't > update the drivers ,ok then a halt or two on "cannot read the > instalation tome" but finally it succeeded. > On trying to install from the cd onto the an internal IBM drive, which > came with the 7600, original? Idon't know, it just won't go past "the > instal can't proceed cannot read the instalation tome. > The sad thing is that I bought the machine with 8.6 on it and had it > just right after about a years service with little trouble. It was a > little slow on startup so thought I'll reinstal from the cd bought on > ebay. Now I have a right mess lost stuff from everywhere but it still > boots from the old system all I have to do is try to recover the lost > stuff. > At the time I bought thr 8.6 cd I also bought a 200mhz 604e processor > and some more memory, would it install if I went back to 604 processor? > any advice would be appreciated. > fluff > wish I'd left the whle deal alone!!!! -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | SPECIAL LIST PRICES - Apple PCI Video Cards from $19.99, MacOS 8.5 CD $79.99 Replacement Parts IN STOCK, Apple CDROMs from $19.99 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
