gregsk1 Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Hi all, i hope someone can help me out! This is my set: Dell optiplex (small form factor) 2.4ghz intel P4 1gb RAM 40gb HD (SCSI i think) CD-rom JaS 10.4.8 AMD Intel SSE2 SSE3.iso (4.3ish gb) Goal: A purely OSx86 machine to run Logic8 (ie. not dual-boot) I've been booting up Ubuntu 7.0.4, attaching a usb HDD, then dd'ing the image to the internal HDD, using dd bs=1048576 if=./MEDIA/EXTERNAL DISK/Mac OS X.img of=/dev/sda1 No joy. I then tried using Ubuntu GNOME disk partitioner to remove the 3 XP partitions i had (2 x data, 1 x Ghost) and replace with one FAT32 FS (set to 'boot') which i then dd'd the JaS iso to. I didn't format the drive, should i have? Anyway, i now get an Intel Media Failure "Press F1 to continue, F2 to enter setup". Pressing F1 just repeats the error When i boot ubuntu i can see the unpacked iso on the partition, but the partition is now not the whole disk but just enough for the iso (about 4.5gb), the rest of the disk appears grey. Should i try a different partition type/size? Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/118128-newbie-with-no-dvd-drive-needs-install-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregsk1 Posted July 29, 2008 Author Share Posted July 29, 2008 An Update! What i've tried: dd'd the image to /dev/sda to ignore partitions. This leaves me with 1 x tiny <1mb partition and 1 x 4.6gb HFS+ partition with the iso unpacked onto. Upon reboot this option gives the "Press F1 to continue, F2 to enter setup" error. Last night i tried creating 2 x 7gb FAT32 partitions and dd'ing the iso to the bootable one (/dev/sda1). This leaves me with one HFS+ partition and one non-bootable FAT32 partition (/dev/sda3). Upon reboot i get a single flashing cursor at the top left of the screen. Nothing else happens. Currently downloading a different img file. Is the fact i'm using a JaS dvd installer the reason it will not work? Will this install method ONLY work with a flat img file? Or are boot loaders my problem ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/118128-newbie-with-no-dvd-drive-needs-install-help/#findComment-837667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregsk1 Posted July 30, 2008 Author Share Posted July 30, 2008 ok all good now. i downloaded the classic tiger-osx86.img file and everything is groovy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/118128-newbie-with-no-dvd-drive-needs-install-help/#findComment-839269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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