Over This

Persistance paying off?

Now, I’ve moved on to being persistent. I’ve also decided that “obsessed” probably wasn’t the best word for me earlier. I think I like “consumed” better. I’m not letting myself get consumed by things anymore. I am ok with being persistent as long as I keep boundaries to how much time I spend on things.

So, my various approaches to installing OS X on the Aspire One have failed so far. The recent hope these past few days has been the Boot 132 method, but I’ve given that up. After making progress, the process dies when my system says “Errors encountered while starting up the computer” and then freezes. All my searches for answers say that my DVD is corrupted. I’m using a retail DVD that has worked before, and it looks almost perfect. Rather than chasing down a better answer, I’ve moved on to my last hope.

At this time, I’m trying the iATKOS method. So far, it’s gotten farther than all my other attempts and actually gets to a version of the familiar looking OS X installer. The first attept I chose to skip the Disk Utility step that I read about since I already partitioned the CF card with a GUID partitition table earlier today. Sadly, the install process ended with an error. I guess it’s time to chase down this error …