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Hi all

I'm following this guide http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...le_And_Accurate

 

and it says you don't need to extract the tar, you can just run this command line:

 

tar -jOxf tiger-x86.tar.bz2 tiger-x86/tiger-x86-flat.img | dd of=/dev/hda2 bs=512 skip=63

 

I don't get it though, you can't run that kind of command line in CMD because windows doesn't accept tar commands.

Any idea how to do this, I don't have enough room to extract the img file

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Adam

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Hi all

I'm following this guide http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...le_And_Accurate

 

and it says you don't need to extract the tar, you can just run this command line:

 

tar -jOxf tiger-x86.tar.bz2 tiger-x86/tiger-x86-flat.img | dd of=/dev/hda2 bs=512 skip=63

 

I don't get it though, you can't run that kind of command line in CMD because windows doesn't accept tar commands.

Any idea how to do this, I don't have enough room to extract the img file

Thanks

Adam

Just download winrar to extract the image then do the dd command

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Hi all

I'm following this guide http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...le_And_Accurate

 

and it says you don't need to extract the tar, you can just run this command line:

 

tar -jOxf tiger-x86.tar.bz2 tiger-x86/tiger-x86-flat.img | dd of=/dev/hda2 bs=512 skip=63

 

I don't get it though, you can't run that kind of command line in CMD because windows doesn't accept tar commands.

Any idea how to do this, I don't have enough room to extract the img file

Thanks

Adam

 

that tutorial has a few mistakes and can be misleading (eg the bit about using skip=63)

 

i think that command is for linux

 

anyway....

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