staticuxo Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 i followed these directions here: http://profit42.com/guides.php?id=1 here's where i'm stuck.. i've created a 6500 mb partition in partition magic. i set it as primary. i then go to disk part and try to set it as "id=af" and it gives me "diskpart was unable to creat the specified partition" so i skipped it and in the install, it won't find my partition at all. i'm assuming bc the id=af didn't work. how can i get this id=af to work? oh, i also looked in the disk utility and it didn't see my partition.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7379-idaf/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
staticuxo Posted January 21, 2006 Author Share Posted January 21, 2006 no one? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7379-idaf/#findComment-46037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
temis Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 use diskpart delete the previously created partition then create a partition like this with id type : create partition primary size=xxxxx id=af type : active you're done (use size=xxxxx if you don't want to use all available free space otherwise diskpart will use it all) when you install : if osx86 does not recognize your partition, use disk utility to erase it and continue with install good luck ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7379-idaf/#findComment-46043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 Actually, you are safer to use partition magic to fix this. You need to boot dos. If you don't have a dos disk, boot your partition magic CD and you will get dos. Change to your cd drive, then cd /utilities/dos Run ptedit from that folder manually change partition to type af Now you can install to partition. However, I think its safer to install in VMware, then dd to your partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7379-idaf/#findComment-46061 Share on other sites More sharing options...
staticuxo Posted January 22, 2006 Author Share Posted January 22, 2006 thanks guys.. i will use that for next time d: i ended up finding a 6 gig hdd laying around and it installed on there [; but, it will not reboot after install |: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7379-idaf/#findComment-46252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
temis Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 some of us have this reboot problem with osx86 ... found no way to fix this yet ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7379-idaf/#findComment-46412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamephreaker Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 I used diskpart then checked in partition magic afer that is where i'm stuck lol Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7379-idaf/#findComment-46492 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paprika Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 I too used diskpart! I created an FAT32 Partition with PartitionMagic (lovely program!). Then converted it or whatever to id=af with diskpart. Then booted the install DVD with vmware and the drive mapped physically and the installer seen it, but wouldn't let me install to it, so I fomatted it again using the disk utility, then I could install to it! Yay... BUT... that didn't hold true when I actually booted my computer from the DVD... when I booted from the DVD not even disk utility seen the drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7379-idaf/#findComment-46726 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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