Careless Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 well i got my updater to install 10.4.5 and then it halted at 50% optimization. so i was advised to just boot from a DVD and commence the rest of the installation as normal, but only after mounting my install disc after booting into single user mode (-s) off the DVD... thanks Tek_No. but im stuck on the mounting part. i cant boot into OSX if the disk has a space in the name (which i think i changed to an underscore) and i dont know what the disk address is, that disk0s1 disk1s2 stuff. so if anyone has the proper commands or can atleast lead me in the right direction? that'd be awesometacular! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 once you are logged in under -s, type this: cd /dev ls d* This will list all the disks in your system. If you need help figuring out which one is the 10.4.5 install that you need to mount, please post the results of the above commands, so we can take a look. If you can tell which partition is the right one. Say disk1s1 for example. Then you would type the following to mount it (which is fairly simple because it's a HFS+ file system): mkdir /Volumes/THEVOLUMENAMEYOUWANTHEREmount /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/THEVOLUMENAMEYOUWANTHERE Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Careless Posted February 28, 2006 Author Share Posted February 28, 2006 mount /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/THEVOLUMENAMEYOUWANTHERE is there a space between the 1 and the /V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 is there a space between the 1 and the /V Yes. the command is mount. The first argument is the device to mount, and the second (after the space) is the Folder you want to mount it to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Careless Posted February 28, 2006 Author Share Posted February 28, 2006 ok i found out that my disk is disk0s1 but when i try to run mkdir it says that it's a readonly file structure. so its still running off the DVD rom. therefore i cannot mount a device to a readonly drive. im booting off my 10.4.3 DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 Sorry, I'm lost there. I don't know how you could mount that drive when running from the DVD. I thought you were running from your old 10.4.3 install. I can't say I've ever had that problem. Maybe someone else has, and can help you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Careless Posted February 28, 2006 Author Share Posted February 28, 2006 Sorry, I'm lost there. I don't know how you could mount that drive when running from the DVD. I thought you were running from your old 10.4.3 install. I can't say I've ever had that problem. Maybe someone else has, and can help you... i greatly appreciate the help you gave anyways. i think it's a step in the same direction, just not on the right foot its ok, Tek_No will save me! *cue Tek_No intro theme* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Careless Posted February 28, 2006 Author Share Posted February 28, 2006 Tek_No comes through with flying colours again. the command to boot from the partition of your choice as the rood disk is: rd=disk0s1 this is done upon booting into the bootloader where you would type the kernel you want to use, the graphics mode, the platform, etc. by pressing F8. we're all well adjusted to that procedure, correct?! ...good =) you must boot into the dvd repair utility off the 10.4.3 or 10.4.4 DVD and go into Disk Utilities, click on the drive that houses the partition that you require to boot to root in. and then right-click (for dual button users like myself) and then go to GET INFORMATION. it will have the disk address in the white box with all the info about your current drive. mine was disk0s1. so thats what i'll be using. any questions, ask me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luki Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 i have the same problem do u have an solution for the "50% optimization problem" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calmesal Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 I have the same problem I asked this before in this forum but no anser. I made a DMG image of my 10.4.5 installation. When I messed up my system, I wanted to restore the image wich I saved in a FAT32 partion on the drive. I booted of the DVD go into diskutils but cant access the partion to read the image, I can se it but no read access. What is the correct terminal command to mount the FAT32 disk-partion as readable and command to mount the HFS+ partion read/write to restore. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdxxx Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 FAT32 will not save a file of large size. You cannot save a file of greater than 4GB size to a FAT32 drive. Oh, yes, you write it there, but it will be corrupted and unrecoverable if over the file size limit. If you .dmg was larger than 4GB, that baby is gone forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 The terminal command to mount FAT32 filesystems is "mount_msdos". The command for mounting standard OS X system HFS+ filesystems is "mount". For more information, on options and usage, use the "man" command. Short for manual. Typing "man mount_msdos" for example will show you the manual page for that command. Good Luck (reading man pages taught me a lot about UNIX commands) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calmesal Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 Thank for reply. My DMG file size is less than 2gb. and I saved this even in a NTFS partion to. But my quesion was it is possible to mount these disks or partions when booting from the DVD. Example: Mac OSX on the first partion of the second HD(disk1s1)named OSX10.4.5, FAT32 partion on the second partion(disk1s2)named EXTRAHD. When in terminal: mkdir /Volumes/EXTRAHD mount_msdos /dev/disk1s2 /Volumes/EXTRAHD return error no such file or directory. Any ideas wat am I doing wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 perhaps when you are in terminal, after booting to the install DVD, the system has not yet examined your hard drive layout? just a guess... Try going into the Disk Utility there, and tell us what drives it can see. Also, in terminal you can try the following to list all of the drives in your devices path. (Well, actually you are just showing all items there that start with the letter 'd', but the result is the same. cd /dev ls d* Let us know what you see here, and from Disk Utility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calmesal Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 Wel I rebooted again with the DVD and in diskutils I can see all the partions and disks: disk0: Partion1=WINXP NTFS disk0: Partion2=BUCKUP NTFS disk1: Partion1=OSX10.4 HFS+ disk1: Partion2=EXTRADH FAT32 The NTFS and FAT32 partions is not mounted, greyed out, so I cant access the image to restore in this stage. If I try to mount it just say error mounting please repare your disk and try later. I asume that I have to mount one of these partions in order to access the image first and then mount the OSX HFS partion R/W to be able to write the image to it. I am lite confused now, but if I could do this, it will spare me alot of time instead of reinstalling everything again from scrach. Any hel will be gratefull. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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