[FX.php List] [OFF-TOPIC] A bug discovery in OS X Server and OS X 10.4 installers

[Bob Patin]

On May 22, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:

> This is what I recently had to do in order to wipe an Intel mini of  
> OS X Server and put plain OS X on it. The OS X installer would sit  
> and spin forever on initialize. I was able to use the OS X install  
> DVD's copy of Disk Utility to initialize the drive first. It would  
> not initialize as part of the OS installation.

Disk Utility wouldn't do it either when i went thru this; I wonder if  
it's just a bug in the installer... I spent hours trying to figure  
out why it kept happening, and thought it was a problem with the  
machine at first.