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installation error

  1. saltyboat

    Power Mac G4 Cube will not boot any operating system but 10.4.0

    So I recently got the Power Mac G4 Cube sent from hell but for some reason the cube has decided to be the biggest pain in computing history, No matter what I do I cannot get the Cube to boot the installer for any version of MacOS 9 or OS X except Mac OS X 10.4.0 and yes specifically 10.4.0. Let...
  2. Skeptical.me

    macOS Mojave 10.14 PB 10 Installation stuck ...

    I updated my iMac (Late 2015 i5 3.2Ghz 5K) to the latest PB 10. But unlike every other PB it is stuck installing the new beta. It has been like this for over an hour. See image. Is my only option to recover from Time Machine??
  3. Prateek90

    BUG: Installation in Progress. Calculating time remaining (Solved)

    Hi Guys, I finally found a fix for this issue. So after waiting for almost 4 hours I gave up and force closed my Macbook Pro. I restarted it and the mac failed to boot up showing me some kernel commands. Got me really scared as I didn't take any backup of my files. These are the steps I took...
  4. Lieutenant_Carter

    Driver error when installing Windows 10 through Bootcamp on MBP

    Hey! First of all, these forums have been an awesome help for me while trying to get Windows 10 up and running on my MacBook. Unfortunately, I've run into yet another error, this time one that I haven't found a solution for via various forums yet. I'm trying to set up Windows 10 on my MacBook...
  5. M

    OS X Installation Failed: "got error in writing to minstallconfig.xml"

    So I will try to be thorough but short here: I have a mid 2007, 20" iMac (7,1) that I bought recently and I decided to upgrade it as much as possible. I did a very large amount of research and decided to go with OWC for a SSD (240 Gb) and 6 Gb of RAM (maximum for this computer according to OWC)...