Installation Woes on an older iMac

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I have an iMac G3. I know it's kind of old, but I need to get it working again because it's just been sitting in a closet collecting dust. Originally, I had it running with both OS9 and OSX (10.1.3 I think?). I later had it running perfectly with OSX 10.4.8. Well one day I decided to reformat the whole thing and start over fresh as there was a lot of junk on there that I didn't want to deal with. OS9 installs just fine, but when I try to install OSX 10.1.3, it says that there were errors during installation. This is what the last line of the log says:

Error: (null) - pax : error22: Failed to write /private/var/tmp/Mount02/./System/Library/Extensions/AppleNDRV/ATIDriverUpdate - Invalid Argument

10.4.8 says there were errors as well. I figure if i can get one version of OSX working I can probably get the other one working as well. I would greatly appreciate any and all advice.

Thanks.

 

[iBookG4user]

When you are installing OS X, have you tried going to Disk Utility and repairing the disk? Also, are you doing an erase and install?

 

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Originally, I was not doing an erase and install, but this morning I tried it and got a little farther. However, the installer stopped and once again said that there were errors. This was the last line of the log:

Error: (null) - pax : error22: Failed to write /private/var/tmp/Mount02/./System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/versions/A/Frameworks/LangAnalysis.framew

I can't seem to find the disk utility on the 10.1.3 disk. I will try with the OSX 10.4.8 one though.