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

[John May]

>On May 22, 2007, at 4:37 PM, John May wrote:
>
>>Right, but you can get to Disk Utility from the installer under one 
>>of the menus.  This has always worked for me, and I know for sure 
>>I've reinstalled over previous OS X Server installs.
>>
>
>Perhaps it wasn't with 10.4.7, or on an Intel Mac? This is one of 
>the new quad-cores; I doubt that matters, but who knows...
>
>  Disk Utility on the Server Install disk never worked for me; it 
>hung up just like OS X Server did. I tested the drive to make sure 
>it was okay, which it was; I was able to get this error to recur on 
>subsequent attempts too.
>
>When I bought the machine, the first install of OS X Server didn't 
>run, so I tried to reinstall; this was the first time I experienced 
>it. I finally hauled the machine to the local Apple store, where 
>they pronounced the machine in perfect order. He showed me how he'd 
>been able to initialize the drive with no trouble.
>
>It was only a couple of weeks later, when I managed to corrupt the 
>conf file that I went through it again; then I remembered what the 
>Apple Store guy had done: he'd hooked up his own hard drive, with a 
>system on it, and from there he ran Disk Utility and nuked the 
>drive. That was what led me to use target disk mode to solve the 
>problem.
>
>But Disk Utility on the Server install disk wouldn't do it; it hung 
>up all of the dozen or so times I tried. I then tried using a Mac OS 
>X Tiger disk (not Server) and had exactly the same results; this 
>reasonably confirmed that it wasn't a disk error.
>
>Bob Patin
>Longterm Solutions
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>615-333-6858
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Sounds sketchy to me.  I'd call Apple Support instead of bringing it 
to the Apple Store.

	- John

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