Installer can't see any drives to install to? |
February, 01, 2003 5:33 PM |
cdomanski |
This is a real weird one. I have a 9500 w/ Sonnet G3 400/512 & a Sonnet ATA100 card. I've had OSX installed already with this config, but I added a Firewire card & 512mb ram. I wanted a clean install, so I erased my first 7GB partition that had OSX before, erased the 7GB OS9 partition, and kept my 15GB partition I use for personal stuff. I re-installed OS9, then ran XPF as usual, picked my OSX partition. The installer starts, agree to license, then when it comes time to pick a destination, there's nothing at all. None of my 3 partitions are there?? I go into drive utility from the installer, and it sees the 40 GB drive, but with no partitions on it! Any ideas? thanks! |
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RE: Installer can't see any drives to install to? |
February, 16, 2003 11:18 PM |
rsprings |
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Not sure if my problem is related to this thread, but... I have a Umax J700 and have OS X 10 and update to 10.1 installed - works OK. Can't afford 10.2.x yet and was trying to get to 10.1.5 for other reasons (ATI update, etc). Running Software Update found Security fix and Explorer 5.1.4 security only. Trying to run any other updates (Installer update,10.1.1, 10.1.5, etc) will not see any drive as OS X. Drive was formatted with Speed Tools, is an unpartioned 4 gig drive with OS X as the only system on it. Suggestions? Thanks. |
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RE: Installer can't see any drives to install to? |
February, 02, 2003 1:49 AM |
tpmco |
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I remember having this problem when first starting to use xpostfacto. I had installed OS X 10.1 and had it running on a 7300. Then something happened, and I wanted to re-install OS X in the same place I had originally installed it. I got no disks to choose from. If my memory serves me, I went back in the installer, and chose as one of the options to erase and reinstall. This allowed the installation to proceed, and did not affect any of the other partitions. Mark |
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RE: Installer can't see any drives to install to? |
February, 01, 2003 11:21 PM |
ken882 |
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How did you originally format your drive before you did the first OS X installation? I know that reformatting with OS 9.1's Drive Setup works, but OS X doesn't like all drive formatting utilities. It would seem that the OS 9 utilities should all work, but I haven't heard of anyone doing an OS X install to a partition that has been erased in the way that you did it. Perhaps someone else will offer a suggestion. By chance, do you have a spare disk where you could copy your 15 Mb partition files, so you could reformat your entire disk and then copy the 15 Mb files back? |
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RE: Installer can't see any drives to install to? |
February, 01, 2003 7:47 PM |
cdomanski |
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I booted from the OS9 cd, and in Finder under Special, did "Erase Disk" for the 2 partitions, OS9 & OSX. I didn't reformat the whole drive since I would like to keep the 15GB partition if at all possible. I did backup the really important stuff to cd, but I'd like to keep it if I can. All 3 partitions work great in OS9. I can choose the OSX partition from XPF to install to. It copies the necessary files there. It's only in the install of OSX that there's absolutely no partitions shown. I just removed my Firewire & USB card, and moved the ATA100 card to a new slot. I'm trying the install again, but my guess is I'll get the same result. |
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RE: Installer can't see any drives to install to? |
February, 01, 2003 7:36 PM |
ken882 |
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When you say you erased two of the three partitions, did you just delete the files, or did you somehow reformat the entre drive, after backing up your 15 Gb partition somewhere else? Can you see all of the partitions from OS 9? |