EricJD Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 (edited) Hello. I am following this guide here: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Vmware_how_to To install OS X in VMWare. (10.4.6 JaS) I set my "hard drive" size as 10GB when I created the VM. When I get to step 8, my "hard drive" is listed as only 4.4GB in the Disk Utility, and apparantly it's read-only. All of the formatting/partitioning/erasing options are greyed out and unusable. What's going on? (apologies for the bad quality screenshot, I used mspaint for jpg compression.) Edited January 2, 2007 by EricJD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37407-osxvmware-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricJD Posted January 2, 2007 Author Share Posted January 2, 2007 Okay, I realized what part of the problem is... 4.4GB is the size of the installer disc, not the virtual hard drive For some reason it doesn't even recognize the "hard drive"... anyone have an idea? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37407-osxvmware-problem/#findComment-266390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.isidor Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 try to user this guide by bezeek 5. Enter disk utility to create partition table. (Utilities -> Disk Utility) 5a. Select drive to install onto. 5b. Enter "Partiton" tab and configure partiton table like so: > 1 Partition, 8GB, Mac OS Extended (Journaled) 5c. Hit the "Partiton" button and exit Disk Utility. 6. Activate the OS X partition. 8a. Enter Terminal to activate partition. (Utilities -> Terminal) 8b. Use the fdisk tool in Terminal as follows: > fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 > f 1 > write > y > exit 8c. Quit Terminal and return to Installer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37407-osxvmware-problem/#findComment-266419 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricJD Posted January 2, 2007 Author Share Posted January 2, 2007 try to user this guide by bezeek 5. Enter disk utility to create partition table. (Utilities -> Disk Utility) 5a. Select drive to install onto. 5b. Enter "Partiton" tab and configure partiton table like so: > 1 Partition, 8GB, Mac OS Extended (Journaled) 5c. Hit the "Partiton" button and exit Disk Utility. 6. Activate the OS X partition. 8a. Enter Terminal to activate partition. (Utilities -> Terminal) 8b. Use the fdisk tool in Terminal as follows: > fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 > f 1 > write > y > exit 8c. Quit Terminal and return to Installer. I can't even do step 5a there because it doesn't even recognize a drive to install to. It only sees the installer disc. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37407-osxvmware-problem/#findComment-266422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.isidor Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 Aha , then have you setup the hdd correctly? you HAVE to set the hard drive to physical disk (wich disk you want to install to) and independent/persistant, that you can do in the "advance" menu of the hdd Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37407-osxvmware-problem/#findComment-266426 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricJD Posted January 2, 2007 Author Share Posted January 2, 2007 Aha , then have you setup the hdd correctly?you HAVE to set the hard drive to physical disk (wich disk you want to install to) and independent/persistant, that you can do in the "advance" menu of the hdd still not working...(see screenshot - I configured the settings like you mentioned) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37407-osxvmware-problem/#findComment-266531 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.isidor Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 (edited) try deleting that one and create a new, but instead of using windows nt try using other / other and see if that works? and i don't think that scsi works so good with macosx, try using a ide instead! Edited January 2, 2007 by .isidor Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37407-osxvmware-problem/#findComment-266667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricJD Posted January 2, 2007 Author Share Posted January 2, 2007 try deleting that one and create a new, but instead of using windows nt try using other / other and see if that works? and i don't think that scsi works so good with macosx, try using a ide instead! How do I switch it to IDE from SCSI? (my VM is being stored on an external USB drive in case that matters) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37407-osxvmware-problem/#findComment-266759 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.isidor Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 well, as far as i know, you can't just switch to IDE, you must either buy a new harddrive (old IDE's is very cheap) or you can just use another hard drive, (in case you have another IDE drive), Or, if you just have one other harddrive that have you old windows installation i think you can use partition manager to manage that hdd to create an extended partition where you install mac:) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37407-osxvmware-problem/#findComment-266824 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricJD Posted January 3, 2007 Author Share Posted January 3, 2007 well, as far as i know, you can't just switch to IDE, you must either buy a new harddrive (old IDE's is very cheap) or you can just use another hard drive, (in case you have another IDE drive), Or, if you just have one other harddrive that have you old windows installation i think you can use partition manager to manage that hdd to create an extended partition where you install mac:) Okay... I have a 15GB partition on my main hard drive that's empty right now. Will that work for installing OS X? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37407-osxvmware-problem/#findComment-267555 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leethium Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 (edited) I installed 08.22.06.Mac.OS.X.Tiger.10.4.7.X86-HOTiSO in VMware and it worked perfectly. I didn't had to use the Terminal or Acronis Disk Director Suite. All I did was setting up the virtual machine, booting from DVD and following the installer. My VMware Settings: config.version = "8" virtualHW.version = "4" scsi0.present = "TRUE" scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic" memsize = "384" MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE" ide0:0.present = "TRUE" ide0:0.fileName = "harddisk1.vmdk" ide1:0.present = "TRUE" ide1:0.fileName = "F:" ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw" floppy0.fileName = "A:" usb.present = "TRUE" sound.present = "TRUE" sound.virtualDev = "es1371" sound.fileName = "-1" sound.autodetect = "TRUE" displayName = "Mac OS X" guestOS = "freebsd" nvram = "FreeBSD.nvram" ide1:0.autodetect = "FALSE" floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE" floppy0.present = "FALSE" ide0:0.redo = "" uuid.location = "56 4d 41 97 7d e8 21 9b-17 91 49 8b 34 61 50 db" uuid.bios = "56 4d 41 97 7d e8 21 9b-17 91 49 8b 34 61 50 db" I used a 20GByte IDE-Hard-Drive-Image for the VM. Greets, Alex bezeek_tut.txt Edited January 4, 2007 by Leethium Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37407-osxvmware-problem/#findComment-268010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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