8600 & partition "not in first 8GB" |
September, 10, 2002 2:44 PM |
tech927 |
i am attempting to install 10.2 on an 8600 with a PowerLogix G3 300Mhz upgrade in it. the drive is a 40GB Western Digital installed on a VST UltraTek 66 ATA card, which has the 2.2.4 firmware upgrade to recognize OS X. the drive is divided into an 8GB partition first and a 22GB partition second, formatted with Drive Setup 2.0.3 (OS 9.1), booted from a SCSI drive installed on the internal bus, running Mac OS 9.1. everything works great on the install, all the way until i have to select which partition to install on. at this point, though the installer finds both partitions, it will not allow the use of either one, saying that the drive "is not within the first 8GB of the disk" or something basically like that. Disk Utility finds it, but i can't really do anything with that either. i've tried a number of other methods, none of which even come as close to working as this one. please shed some light if you can. |
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RE: 8600 & partition |
September, 12, 2002 2:48 PM |
cmliljes |
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I must be having a bad day. One more time! http:// eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Instructions.html |
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RE: 8600 & partition |
September, 12, 2002 2:46 PM |
cmliljes |
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I'm going to re-post the last paragraph or two, because the URL straddled two lines because it contained a typo. c) Last, and by NO means least, check out http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Instructions. html Ryan has done us all a great service, and that page shows how it began, and additionally why the method I've detailed above explanation above works If my thumbnail-sketch explanation isn't clear, please continue this thread. I'll be happy to answer (If I can:-) your questions. Christian |
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RE: 8600 & partition |
September, 12, 2002 2:43 PM |
cmliljes |
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Actually, we won't be forced to partition: 1) Make sure you have one additional physical hard disk of at least 1.5GB. 2) Install Mac OS X on it. 3) When your machine restarts, force it to reboot into Mac OS 9 by holding down the option key until you see the OS 9 boot screen. 3) Once you're up and running in OS 9, use Apple software Restore (2.1.1 or later) to copy the volume with your fresh OS X that installation to your single-partition 40GB Western Digital drive. 4) Use XPostfacto to restart your machine with the 40-gig drive as the boot device. 5) enjoy! Some helpful notes: a) If you don't have ASR 2.1.1 or later, you can download Automate ASR 1.0 (which includes ASR 2.1.2) from Really Early Morning Software's Web site, http://homepage.mac.com/remsoftware (The file itself is here: http://homepage.mac.com/remsoftware/autoasr.hqx) b) Additionally, you can use Apple's Disk Copy to make a disk image of your new installation of OS X (provided the volume you used was less than 2GB--that's Disk Copy 6.3.3's maximum imageable volume size) and use Automate ASR to write it to your 40-GB drive. c) Last, and by NO means least, check out http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Instructions. html Ryan has done us all a great service, and that page shows how it began, and additionally why the method I've detailed above explanation above works If my thumbnail-sketch explanation isn't clear, please continue this thread. I'll be happy to answer (If I can:-) your questions. Christian |
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RE: 8600 & partition |
September, 10, 2002 6:30 PM |
tech927 |
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yup, that was the problem. i lowered the partition to 6.5GB and it worked great. this leads me to wonder, though, what do you do if you want to install X onto a 30 or 60 gig drive, for example, and you don't want to partition it at all? someday, there are going to be those of us who will never need Classic (i know this is heresy to some, but i think that day is approaching at some point) or a 9.x partition to boot into, and we'll be forced to partition regardless. seems a little strange to me... |
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RE: 8600 & partition |
September, 10, 2002 4:06 PM |
cmliljes |
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Try repartitioning the drive so that the first partition is *just* under 8GB. You can use either Drive Setup in Mac OS 9 or Disk Utility from the Mac OS X Installer CD. (Once you've booted with XPostfacto, choose Open Disk Utility.. from the Installer menu.) This worked for me. (YMMV) Also note that Drive Setup lets you type in a volume sizes or use the graphical proxy to "manually" adjust them. With Disk Utility, you'll have to use the proxy because, the Size: field, while more than willing to accept your input, cheerfully ignores it. (One of those bugs we're too busy to report to Apple.) If you use Disk Utility, make sure you check the Install Mac OS 9 Disk Drivers checkbox. This is both necessary in order to be able to mount the disk whenever you boot into OS 9, and beneficial in that it installs SCSI, ATA, and FireWire disk drivers. I'm not sure what use the FW drivers would be, but the ATA drivers will allow you (without reformatting) to use the drive OS 9 in a Beige G3 or other Mac that has a built-in IDE bus. (I have a Umax Supermac c600) |
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