insertnamehere Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 Hello, I am using the install onto a partition using dd method to install osx86 but have run into a bit of a problem. I have one harddrive which is split into two disks (volumes?). The first part of the harddisk is c which i don't want to touch. The C drive(not sure if it's a drive or volume if it's on the same harddisk) is only 20gb and contains windows and other files which i don't want to get rid of. However the other part of the disk (the E drive/volume/partition) is completely expendable although i would like to still use this partition to store files from windows (It's about 60gigs). I backed up the files previously on E and deleted the partition, then used disk management to make this one smaller to make room for an osx partition. I have successfully partitioned the remainder of the drive to the AF type and it should be ready to have the tiger-x86-flat image copied over right? Well, when i do use the dd --list command i get quite confused as to which partition to copy tiger onto, C:\tiger-x86>dd --list rawwrite dd for windows version 0.3. Written by John Newbigin <[email protected]> This program is covered by the GPL. See copying.txt for Win32 Available Volume Information \\.\Volume{ef96c3da-8203-11d6-b100-806d6172696f}\ link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume1 fixed media Mounted on c:\ \\.\Volume{3a61ed68-0f75-11da-a329-00080208112c}\ link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume2 fixed media Mounted on e:\ \\.\Volume{395c7492-821d-11d6-a21b-806d6172696f}\ link to \\?\Device\CdRom0 CD-ROM Mounted on f:\ \\.\Volume{85334a05-1d86-11d6-a444-806d6172696f}\ link to \\?\Device\CdRom1 CD-ROM Mounted on d:\ \\.\Volume{85334a06-1d86-11d6-a444-8500040f7264}\ link to \\?\Device\Floppy0 removeable media Mounted on a:\ \\.\Volume{73146556-ee37-11d9-a31b-00080208112c}\ link to \\?\Device\Harddisk2\DP(1)0-0+6 removeable media Mounted on g:\ NT Block Device Objects \\?\Device\CdRom0 \\?\Device\CdRom1 \\?\Device\Floppy0 \\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition0 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk0\DR0 Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512 \\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1 link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume1 \\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk1\DR1 Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512 \\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition1 link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume2 \\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition2 link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume5 Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512 \\?\Device\Harddisk2\Partition0 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk2\DR5 \\?\Device\Harddisk2\Partition1 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk2\DP(1)0-0+6 that's what i get when i dd --list. i've tried setting of to where i think the partition is located (harddisk1\partition2) but it hasn't worked. I waited until it was finished and checked the partition through the disk manager to see that the partition was still empty, wasting an hour of valuable osx86 time so am I trying to write to the wrong partition? Thanks in advance for your time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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