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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.)

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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.

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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.

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Aha :happymac:, 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

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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)

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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!

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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)

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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:)

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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?

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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

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