I have a SATA partition running 10.5.8 with an AMD CPU. I'm trying to install 10.6 to an IDE disk using a retail DVD install image, and I'm running into problems.
When I copy the retail image to a USB stick, patch it with myHack, and reboot to install, the installer sees only USB disks. I added the recommended kexts to Extra/Extensions on the USB stick, fixed permissions etc., and retried, but no joy. My BIOS does not present an ACPI option for SATA.
When I try to install from the USB image to the IDE disk while running in my 10.5.8 partition on SATA, the installer gets to a certain point and fails on "could not extract files from package BaseInstaller". I find the BaseInstaller package within the image and try to install it directly, and I get the same error. Does this indicate a bad install disc? Would be interesting since I used the same disc to install 10.6 on a MacBook with no trouble. But if so, would it be possible to get this file from elsewhere?
Finally, I've tried installing from an Intel/AMD modded image by Hazard, and this seems to almost work, but it hangs after completing and trying to exit the installer. Rebooting into this partition results in a CPU mismatch kernel panic. Running Marvin's AMD Utility from my 10.5.8 partition results in a hung system. I've also tried zeph's AMD Patcher, which runs fine but does so silently and does not give the option to run on another partition. So I've tried to run this after rebooting with an install disc and running 'open AMD\ Patcher.app" in a terminal on the IDE partition, but this fails too.
Any ideas on how to approach any of these roadblocks?
Thanks!