I have tried to install 343 several times now with several methods but no joy

I have a 2.33Ghz Core2Duo Macbook Pro with 2gig ofram, 160Gb hdd.

First method i tried: Repair the Leopard DMG onto an external USB hard disk and boot from that.

First problem: Startup disk says yep thats bootable, reboot and it just boots to tiger despite selecting leopard in startup disk.

If i hold ALT during boot, it seems to go really sluggish with the USB hdd attached. (It's a 100GB 7200rpm drive 2.5" Drive)
I tried having it with smaller partitions also.


After giving up on that method i set about making a DVD-R by removing the XCODE tools.
I did this successfully and burnt to single layer DVD-r

Rebooted, it starts to load, then as the blue screen comes up with the beachball it eventually turns itself off?!

I tried again burning to several different brands of DVD-R all with the same result.

i then Try to load with verbose mode and from what i could tell the last error before it starts to shutdown was related to the display.

Ive checked the CRC of the Leopard image incase of errors and it seems to be fine.


Any ideas whats going on? or does it just not support the c2d macbook pro?

I'd like to try using the Osinstall.mpkg method but i cant as i cant run the XAR package


cheers

cRuNcHiE

What do you mean by "it seems to go really sluggish"....how long do you wait...and what screen do you wait on?

might be a dodgy ISO. if not, DVD-DLs are falling in price....

I'd go with the dodgy ISO theory. Maybe DL it again? By now, it shouldn't take more than a night. Not so when I got it...

I successfully installed 9A343 from a USB drive. I restored the DMG to a 6GB partition on the USB drive, then installed to a 45GB partition on the same drive so I could keep Tiger. No issues whatsoever; the install partition showed up when holding Option on boot, and the install went fine.

Now I just have to figure out how to remove that 6GB partition or how to stop it from showing up in rEFIt.

Sluggish as in, when the icon comes up to choose what to boot from , moving the mouse is very jerky and sticks as it is tihnking. The usb drive doesnt appear in there despite showing in startup disk selector IN os x.

If i leave on the boot menu it will just sit there , being pretty much non responsive. Ive left it there for 20mins before.

When booting from the DVD it takes about 10 minutes for the apple logo to dissapear then blue screen comes up and goes and it shuts down

I have checked the iso by using several torrents to confirm it is 100% and it is.
I originally downloaded the iso from usenet.


I have just tried again making an iso all over again but this time burning to a DVD+RW. Same result

You could try booting from a firewire drive...if the intel macs even allow that.

Hmmmm i just dug out my old Archos Gmini 20GB mp3 player and formatted to Journal and copied over leopard install and that works fine.
strange.

Im guessing maybe the macbook doesnt like the chipset on my 2.5"hdd caddy or it being 100GB,

try re-syncing the GPT and MBR tables in rEFIts command line option

Is the 6 GB partition before or after the 45 gig, if it is after just delete the 6 GB and resize the 45 GB.

Yeah... I wasn't thinking very far ahead; it's the first partition on the disk. I suppose I could delete it, but diskutil resizeVolume (to resize the 45G) supposedly only works on the boot disk. I guess I could run the command in Leopard...

How would GPTsync fix this? The partition exists; it's bootable but I'm going to erase it. There's no hybrid GPT/MBR even on the disk, anyway. It's a USB disk.