Odd installation errors

[beachycove]

I hauled out one of my SE/30s yesterday, fired it up, and discovered the hard drive was dead. So I then changed the drive from my stash and installed a System — and did not get any farther yesterday than that. So today I have been trying to reinstall some software.

It’s been frustrating. I am getting persistent errors with this message: “The integrity of the resource fork of this file could not be verified. Use this file with caution.”

Now I have used the same installation disks/ disk images on other machines multiple times with no problems, and have tried network installers and actual floppy disks, with the same error. Sometimes I can get an installation done, but mostly not. I don’t think it’s the software installers that are the problem, as they work fine on other machines. Could it instead be a hardware fault? Or ought I to reinstall the System. I am stumped.

 

[beachycove]

I have discovered that Mode32 is under certain circumstances capable of causing file resource corruption. The SE/30 has System 7.5 (which I like on 68k hardware), 20mb RAM, and Mode32 v.7.5, which is supposed to avoid all such unpleasantness: https://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Other_System/MODE32_7.5.txt . 
 

This, however, is my first time using Mode32 and System 7.5. What I’m describing might suggest that the problems with the earlier version of Mode32 on 7.5 were not really overcome.

Has anyone else had this experience?

 

[beachycove]

Well, that was an underwhelming response.

I will ferret out some new RAM and report back all the same.