No Firewire install possible? -- corrected

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Jason:
I am saddened that you are having so many problems.  By the way, I 
really like that Will Rogers quote.

Now to attempt to address at least a few questions or issues.

I had previously  stated an approach regarding formatting; however what 
you are reporting is not really a formatting problem per se.  There is 
an application within anaconda which allows you to format any drive if 
it is physically connected, and of course -- turned on.  One can use 
that to reformat an entire external drive the exclusive use of YDL.  
Returning to your direct issue, you may have to test that firewire 
port.  There are many applications out there, but the most reliable in 
my view is Micromat's Tech Tools Pro.  It contains facilities to test 
the hardware as much as can be done without a user turning his home 
into an engineering research center.  It produces a rather detailed 
report on each system.  You could use Apple's Hardware test program 
which is on the System CD also, it may be of some help.  Keep in mind 
though Apple recommends and uses Micromat's product itself and 
recommends it to their developers.

Regarding the md5 test, it is a good idea to complete the test before 
the disks are burned and later tested by mediacheck.
The md5 test to use is invoked from within the Terminal application 
available within OS X.  It is run upon the iso's you downloaded and you 
compare the md5 result of each iso against the actual md5 values 
reported by TSS.  If there is any variance at all no matter how small 
from the standard TSS md5 values, you know at that point that there was 
a problem with the download and it is at that point where you proceed 
to do a new download from a different or the same mirror until the md5 
values match.  When they finally do match then that is the iso to burn.

Maybe you've tried the above; I mention them merely on the chance that 
one or both was something you skipped or otherwise omitted.

Good Luck...

On Apr 5, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Jason Christiansen wrote:

> I've been following a couple somewhat-related e-mail chains on the
> list here about some difficulties others are having with the firewire
> connectivity and YDL 4.1.  However, I'm about to add my quandry to the
> list...
>
> I've downloaded the ISOs for YDL 4.1, and boot into the installer
> using the "install firewire" option.  However, no matter what I try,
> when I get to Anaconda, it never sees the firewire drive that I have
> connected to the computer, just the two internal disks.  It's a G4
> dual 450 (Gigabit Ethernet), Firewire drive is a SanDisk 60GB,
> connecting through the built-in firewire ports on the Mac.
>
> One suspicion I have is that I've done the whole media check routine,
> and although disks #2-4 check out fine, disk #1 results in a fail.  I
> re-download the image, do an MD5 check successfully, but it still
> results in a fail after burning and booting.  I've downloaded, checked
> and burned disk #1 several times, each time resulting in a failed
> mediacheck.  Could this be the cause of the problem with installing to
> Firewire?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help...
>
> -Jason
>
> --
> Jason Christiansen
> jchristiansen at gmail.com
>
> "You can't say civilization isn't advancing;
> in every war they kill you in a new way."
>   --Will Rogers
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