Installer tells nonsense about Destination |
December, 15, 2002 7:26 AM |
RWBorn |
Today I tried to install Jaguar and failed, because at the point where the installer asks for the destination, all three partitions of my brand new ATA Drive show a red exclamation mark and the result of choosing the first one results in "You cannot install Mac OS X on this disk. This destination is not within the first 8 GB of the hard disk." Even going to the Disk Utility and getting its approval ("appears to be OK") didn't help - the Installer refuses to continue there. This is a bug, since these freshly initiated partitions have over 25 GB each and there is only 23 MB used on the one I want to use, partly put there by XPostFacto. Situation: Mac 7300 with a Sonnet Crescendo G4 800 MHz, a new Maxtor 80 GB ATA Disk is operated via a Sonnet Tempo Trio card (Firmware 3.2.5) and divided into 3 equal partitions in HFS+ format, the first of which I want to use for Jaguar. (By the way: after this bad luck I experienced some difficulty in trying to pay and to get into this forum. The form insists on a telephone number, formatted like in the USA, which is quite different from the numbers over here in Europe. So I had to use zeros to get through. And there was a question about some kind of list that had to be answered, without explanation, and I didn't understand what it was about. I think the form has to become a little bit more international and self-explaining.) |
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RE: Installer tells nonsense about Destination |
December, 15, 2002 5:51 PM |
RWBorn |
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It works! Thanks a lot! Richard. |
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RE: Installer tells nonsense about Destination |
December, 15, 2002 3:04 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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That is exactly why I bought the acard ahard 66... Because it shows as SCSI so I can have all my data on one partition. Marty |
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RE: Installer tells nonsense about Destination |
December, 15, 2002 2:08 PM |
gchron |
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Hello, You just have to parition the OSX drive at 7.99GB in order to install the X. The others can be as gig you want. If you had a SCSI hard disk the 8GB limit patrition does not need to be. Actually I have an Acard with a 20GB partition IDE disk but it it shown as SCSI and so there is no any problem with that. |