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In article <35858193.5B34@parkfish.demon.co.uk>,
Steve Parker <steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Why might my mac refuse to properly install a virginal operating system 
>from the same CD it used to install from.  Norton says the disk is fine, disk 
>first aid says the same, yet I cannot install any operating systems.  I can 
>restore old copies of operating systems which then work OK but with 
>crashes.

All I can think of is that you might have a hardware error- possibly
memory. I once had cache memory error in a 6100; it was a killer. Only
happened intermittently but more often when hot. It could be that in the
time it takes to copy your backup system across, no error happens, but when
you try a full install which is a much longer process, something goes
wrong.

I remember trying to install OS/2 v.2 on a machine that was very happy with
DOS and Windoze 3.1. It always failed at the same stage; it was some kind
of RAM glitch. I'm not, of course, saying that exactly the same applies in
your case, but it might be worth seeing if you can "borrow" some RAM and
see if it still happens. 

-- 
Peter