melman101 Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Ok, well i was locked into the 6 gig image as everyone else, except i knew before hand so i made the partition 7.5 gigs just in case. So then I had 3 partitions. 1 100 gig NTFS, 1 7 gig HFS+, and 1 80 gig HFS+. So then I tried to copy all the stuff from the 7 gig in single user mode using ditto, and followed all the commands, bless and everything. Then i booted, and it worked! But when i went to my home folder it said available 7 gigs, so i must have booted the wrong startup disk. So I said, oh i need to select start up disk. So i did, and upon reboot, i got Error loading os. So i was like damn... But I realized what it (selecting the startup disk) did, it just set that partition /dev/hda3 or whatever as bootable and I could have fixed it in knoppix. But instead I deleted my 1 100 gig NTFS and made a 20 gig NTFS and another 70 gig or so HFS+. I installed windows on the 20 gig. Then I decided let me try chain0 booting and that didn't work from windows bootloader got Chain booting error. After that I decided I needed to install darwin if i want anything to work. SO the plan was to install on the 80 gig HFS+ partition that had all the stuff copied over to it, but I accidentally selected the wrong partition, and selected the 7 gig image partition. After that i had to go into knoppix and set that partition to bootable. Once I did that i had the darwin bootloader, 1 for Windows, 1 for the 80 gig that I had copied all the stuff to (still has it all on there), and 1 for the 7 gig new darwin install. Darwin booted fine so i figured let me ditto everything back, and then redo this install. But instead, on the second boot, i selected the 80 gig HFS+ that had everything copied and it booted!!!! I couldn't believe it. When I went to my home folder it said 70 gigs or so free roughly. !!! so then i went into disk utility found the other 70 gig, formatted as HFS+ and now i got four drives on my desktop. 1 is the Mac HD, 1 is a storage HD, and 1 is the Windows NTFS. I see the Darwin (7 gig) partition on my desktop but thats where the bootloader is housed. So i lost 7 gigs, but I managed to get it working. So i figured i better just leave it like this. Hope this helps someone if they want to try what i did. Edit: i changed not being able to see the darwin bootloader to being able to see it. just didnt realize it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcruzlara Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 so um...... wot happened u figured out a way to make the 6 gig image bigger? if so kool but don't kow if its just me but i dont get it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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