zonker Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 I successfully installed iATKOS.r3 once before and had it working fine after updating to X.5.2. After running in widows for a while, I rebooted to boot into mac HD (dedicated to mac only). I could not select either partition to boot from (this was before I knew to install ONLY the bootloader as from researching, it appears that when I restored one of the partitions, I made both of them non-bootable by mistake) so I attempted a re-install. I booted the DVD and reformatted in disk utility. After doing this I went on to installation. I opened the installer log window to keep track of what was happening. It takes a good while while "validating install pkg" and as soon as it gets to "extracting", the drive falls asleep. I keep the mouse moving the entire time, click on blank areas, switch from the installer to the log window by clicking on them, move the mouse once every minute, every two minutes, etc. You name it and I've tried it. As soon as the installer log window says "extracting" the drive goes to sleep. It happens at the same time, every time. I had a successful install with this DVD before with this same IDE DVD to the same SATA HD. Did I just get lucky that first time? Should I reburn the DVD and try that? Should I pour Red Bull into the DVD drive to keep it awake ? Show it a Playboy to keep it up long enough to finish ? Show it naked pics of my wife and secretary ? I'm at a loss as to how to keep this from happening. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95684-how-do-i-keep-dvd-drive-from-sleeping-at-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyper Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Look in Power Saving options in system preferences and uncheck the box for HD to sleep. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95684-how-do-i-keep-dvd-drive-from-sleeping-at-install/#findComment-682408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 At Install there is no System Preferences. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95684-how-do-i-keep-dvd-drive-from-sleeping-at-install/#findComment-682444 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonker Posted March 26, 2008 Author Share Posted March 26, 2008 At Install there is no System Preferences. That's what I thought when I saw that reply. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95684-how-do-i-keep-dvd-drive-from-sleeping-at-install/#findComment-682958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyper Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Sorry , i missed understood. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95684-how-do-i-keep-dvd-drive-from-sleeping-at-install/#findComment-683279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanakorizo Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 don;t install at night Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95684-how-do-i-keep-dvd-drive-from-sleeping-at-install/#findComment-683289 Share on other sites More sharing options...
satch_yt Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Hi everyone, I guess I have the same problem, After customizing the installation and clickling install, the installer seems to be frozen, but the DVD and HD lights keep blinking, computer seems to be doing something, but nothing happens in the installer screen and the progress bar. I left the computer and waited for the installer to finish, after about 12 hours I saw that only about %10 of the installation was complete, and remaining time was about 35 hours! I thought it could be something about power management options, and I tried to set the disk sleep and spindown timers to 0 with command pmset in terminal, (pmset -a sleep 0 spindown 0), but it said that it couldn't write the preferences to disk I have ToH AMD 10.5.1 distro and here's the specs of my computer AMD sempron 3000+ 1GB Ram 80GB Maxtor IDE HD (this is the one i'm trying to install) -- this is set to MASTER 80GB WD Sata HD (I disabled this one from the BIOS) Samsung DVD drive -- set to SLAVE 300GB philips usb HD (this one is disabled too) ATI radeon x300 p.s. I tried different master - slave combinations, nothing changed. I experienced the same problems with Tiger 10.4.8, and I posted in that topic too, got no replies, I hope you can help me with leopard and tell me what I'm missing. and if it makes sense, I keep getting "still waiting for root device" error unless I boot with -f option, with -f everything seems normal until the last screen thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95684-how-do-i-keep-dvd-drive-from-sleeping-at-install/#findComment-683798 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonker Posted March 27, 2008 Author Share Posted March 27, 2008 Anyone have any ideas? I can't be the only one going through this problem and I'm sure there are those out there who had it and resolved it. Don't be afraid to speak up and help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95684-how-do-i-keep-dvd-drive-from-sleeping-at-install/#findComment-685227 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoiX Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 click the menus once in a while and open the installer log Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95684-how-do-i-keep-dvd-drive-from-sleeping-at-install/#findComment-685368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
satch_yt Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 click the menus once in a while and open the installer log I did, that doesn't help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95684-how-do-i-keep-dvd-drive-from-sleeping-at-install/#findComment-685791 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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