emailissent Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 First off my specs and set up Intel core 2 duo E4400 8600GT DVD reader/writer with an IDE hook up 2 hard drives with SATA hook up http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t288/Kyin1/d.jpg That is how my current hard drive / partition looks like. Disk0 has 2 partitions. 1 with XP the other with Vista Disk1 has also 2 partitons. 1 for just storage and installed programs, the other is currently not formatted to anything. This is the one I want to install mac OS on. I burned a uphuck_10.4.9_v1.4i_r3.iso onto a DVD and load it up when my computer restarts. Everything went okay all the way until where mac OS asked me where to install. On that screen (right after the read me) I don't have a list to select my options. What should I do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75518-i-cant-select-where-to-install-during-installing-mac-os/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
LS8 Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Start DiskUtil and check if your MacOS installer can see your harddisks. Some SATA controllers may not be suppported. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75518-i-cant-select-where-to-install-during-installing-mac-os/#findComment-533373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emailissent Posted December 9, 2007 Author Share Posted December 9, 2007 Start DiskUtil and check if your MacOS installer can see your harddisks. Some SATA controllers may not be suppported. Cool! I went to diskUtil and it sees everything, what should I do now? also im following this guide http://coolblog.profit42.com/2007/04/07/os...indows-machine/ That guide mentions nothing about kernal, is that a requirment before I do anything? Because I haven't done anything except burn that image into a DVD and reboot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75518-i-cant-select-where-to-install-during-installing-mac-os/#findComment-533385 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emailissent Posted December 9, 2007 Author Share Posted December 9, 2007 okay so I went into diskUtil and erased the partition that I wanted to install mac on, but at the end it says disk erase failed. I tried twice and it failed twice. Should I try a different build? like JaS instead of uphuck? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75518-i-cant-select-where-to-install-during-installing-mac-os/#findComment-533553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maghush Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Hi everyone can some body tell me the password for this Archive Winrar file i ghave downloaded fron Rapidshare and i just went to extract it to iso and it askes for a password whatr coud it be??JaS_10.4.8_AMD_Intel_SSE2_SSE3.Defiant_diskutil_fix password please help me this is anoying Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75518-i-cant-select-where-to-install-during-installing-mac-os/#findComment-535340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewNZ Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Hi everyone can some body tell me the password for this Archive Winrar file i ghave downloaded fron Rapidshare and i just went to extract it to iso and it askes for a password whatr coud it be??JaS_10.4.8_AMD_Intel_SSE2_SSE3.Defiant_diskutil_fix password please help me this is anoying That info is normally on the site you downloaded from. Try looking there. Sometimes the password is just blank spaces. Or so I heard... HTH. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75518-i-cant-select-where-to-install-during-installing-mac-os/#findComment-535381 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emailissent Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 Okay I tried a different build, I got the JaS (instead of uphuck) But now when I go to disk ultility to try and erase my partition none of my SATA hard drive shows up! uphuck was able to read it so I don't think it may be my hard ware. any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75518-i-cant-select-where-to-install-during-installing-mac-os/#findComment-535489 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba2120 Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 alright i'll tell you how i did it. log into windows and create an unallocated partition using whatever utiliity you like then open up the command prompt and type as follows. . . 1. diskpart 2. list disk 3. select disk x (replace x with the disk number you want, it'll have a list) 4. list part 5. select part x (same as above only with the desired partition) 6. delete 7. create part primary id=AF Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75518-i-cant-select-where-to-install-during-installing-mac-os/#findComment-535515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emailissent Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 Okay I'll try that right now and let you know how it goes.it didn't work. I got this message inside diskpartThere is insufficient free space to create a partition at that specified size and offset.I tried to do this on a 60GB partition that I took from a 500GB hard driveNVM, on step 6 i had to type "delete partition" instead of just deleteIt didn't work, I tried the diskpart and id = af thingmy drives still don't show up under diskUtil Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75518-i-cant-select-where-to-install-during-installing-mac-os/#findComment-535518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajax2888 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I have the same issue with my Gateway ML6230. I follow the steps mentioned in this acticle: http://coolblog.profit42.com/2007/06/23/os...-intel-and-amd/ But there is no partitions which I could choose for installation. My SATA disk have 3 partitions: 0. 8G, (Gateway hidden partition) 1. 57G, (Vista Home partition) 2. 15G, (For macos) I also saw some errors that /dev/disk0s1, /dev/disk0s2 are not mounted. Could DiskUtil fix this issue about SATA? any guide about how to use DiskUtil? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75518-i-cant-select-where-to-install-during-installing-mac-os/#findComment-535655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajax2888 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I have the same issue with my Gateway ML6230.I follow the steps mentioned in this acticle: http://coolblog.profit42.com/2007/06/23/os...-intel-and-amd/ But there is no partitions which I could choose for installation. My SATA disk have 3 partitions: 0. 8G, (Gateway hidden partition) 1. 57G, (Vista Home partition) 2. 15G, (For macos) I also saw some errors that /dev/disk0s1, /dev/disk0s2 are not mounted. Could DiskUtil fix this issue about SATA? any guide about how to use DiskUtil? DiskUtil fix this issue when ereasing it. The installation completed normally. But when I restarted it, it said "HFS+ partition error". use DiskUtil again: "fdisk -u /dev/disk0" to fix it. This time one new error "system config file '/com.apple.boot.plist' not found". .... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75518-i-cant-select-where-to-install-during-installing-mac-os/#findComment-535715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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