6100 Will not reinstall

[CelGen]

So I have two options for reloading a Power Macintosh stock with the software it would of shipped with (so I don't have to fuss with getting some of the hardware to work properly later). One is the restore CD which comes with 7.1.2. The other is also a restore CD but comes with 7.5. Both CD's specifically state they are for the 6100 series machines.

The 6gb hard drive in the machine IS apple branded however not the original drive. For the scenarios below I was either using it split into two 3gb partitions or just one 4gb partition with the rest unallocated. Because the drive is so new I had to use a later version of HD SC setup (7.1.3) to partition and initialize it.

Under 7.1.2 the machine boots but installer says there's -133201k available and it cannot continue. Under 7.5 the machine boots, draws most of the window for the CD and then crashes with error -192. I can boot with extensions disabled and I can reach the installer but it seems to fail at some point with a disk error.

While both instances point to a problem with the drive that I can tell the disk is in great shape still.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Which 6100 is it?  7.1.2 will only install on the 6100/60, not the 6100/66.

As for why 7.5 won't install, that I don't know - I'm guessing memory issues.  Try removing all but 8 MB of RAM.

 

[CelGen]

Being a 6100 it has 8mb soldered to the board.

I can run a ram test using Snooper but as it wasn't something for the PowerPC macs I got no idea if the tests are accurate or not. Either way, it's supposedly failing the onboard ram. ;_;

I should also add before the post can no longer be edited that I got around the -192 error by taking the drive in another machine and doing a full zero pass before partitioning and formatting.