Havingproblem installing OSX on partition- |
June, 24, 2003 7:31 PM |
dschulz1 |
I'm trying to insstall OS X on a 8600 running a Sonnet 700MHz, 640MB. I've partitioned an 80GB Maxtor ATA 133 drive into 3. Two 10GB and a 60GB. I am trying to use one of the 10GB as my OSX drive. I get to the installer but when it asked me to choose a drive to install the system on it wouldn't let me install on the partition I had made for OSX or any of the other partitions It says something about not being the first 8GB of the drive. HELP! Dave |
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RE: Havingproblem installing OSX on partition- |
June, 25, 2003 4:49 PM |
egonzales21 |
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Sorry I made an assumption on previous post. You have not stated what ATA card you are using. Both the Sonnet 133 and the Acard/SIIG 133 cards both support partitions over 8Gb. Ed |
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RE: Havingproblem installing OSX on partition- |
June, 25, 2003 4:46 PM |
egonzales21 |
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One option is to install OS X to an old SCSI drive first and then use a program like Carbon Copy Cloner to move the install to the ATA drive. I used this method and have a full working copy of 10.2.6 on a 120 Gb Maxtor drive. The Sonnet ATA card supports partitions of over 8Gb. It is the Apple installer script that imposes the limit. I have essentially left SCSI behind. I have a 9Gb Seagate around only for emergency reasons. Ed |
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RE: Havingproblem installing OSX on partition- |
June, 25, 2003 10:05 AM |
fixitjc |
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One reason I have stuck with SCSI |
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RE: Havingproblem installing OSX on partition- |
June, 25, 2003 8:24 AM |
dschulz1 |
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Thank you. Boy, what a pain. |
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RE: Havingproblem installing OSX on partition- |
June, 24, 2003 10:17 PM |
fixitjc |
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with ata/ide you must use the first partition and it must be less than 8 gig like 7.99 to install OSX this is one of the short falls of ATA on the old world machines. This limitation applys only to ATA/IDE not SCSI |