Please help me figure out what is going on

[skotwarr]

I have been following the official wiki installation guide for the .tar install, not DVD, copy the files to an external Western Digital HDD (60GB) which takes a while. When it is done I look at my HDD space usage in Disk Management and it still says it is empty but that the partition is healthy. I reboot and boot from the external HDD anyway, it gives me a partition error, I boot to Windows, look open the disk manager and it says the the whole HDD is unallocated. What am I doing wrong?

 

Please help,

Thank you

[sidding]

 

see that? that's my os x partition and my 10.4.7 setup partition. it's normal.

 

prolly you're not setting it active or there's no bootloader. read the wiki again.

[skotwarr]

I tried this the last time I tried installing it to the external hard drive:

You can increase the block size to copy the image faster, this changes what's required in the skip= too :

 

C:\tiger-x86>dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2 bs=32256 skip=1 --progress

 

 

the partition is still there but it shows it as empty in disk manager. When I boot

the Ubuntu live cd, it shows that it is there but I don't know what to do

with it in Ubuntu. I the guides I followed I used DiskPart to partition the drive

but it didn't say to make the partition active before installing just to make sure

that it is set as primary partition. It copies all the information with no errors

using dd. What did you use to bootload os x?

Thanks for your help!

PS

I have also tried doing this:

"bs=512 skip=63" and no partition would be visable after. Just unallocated space.

 

 

Do I need to install VMWare first before I try to do this. If you used this method of installation, what did you do after it finished copying, install a boot loader or just reboot?