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May be due to non-canonical install disk
Authored by: herbertbrubaker on Jan 08, '08 09:41:10PM

I had this problem and it was due to the fact that I was using an install disk customized by my employer. The fix was to create a new install disk identical in every respect except for deleting a file called WINNT.sif. There may be an all-Mac way of doing this, but I ended up using a Windows box and the free ISOBuster app to extract the 'MICROSOFT WINDOWS.img" file at the top level of the CD. After that, you put that file together with the rest of the files from the CD (except I386/WINNT.sif) and create an ISO using mkisofs. After that, you can burn a cd from the ISO that mkisofs generates, using Disk Utility. This is a rough outline, please ask me if you need more info.



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