willgonz Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 Ok here is what I did: Installed OS X86 on a drive. VMware Native version. Ended up with the 6 Gigs taking up my 40 gig drive and not allowing me to use the full drive. We all have been there. I took a second drive an 80 gig. Installed Darwin onto it. Used the full drive. Did the auto install and I let Darwin do it's thing. After that I booted my 40Gig drive with OS X86 on it. Turned off all screen savers and power saving settings. Went into Disk Utility Clicked on any drive doesn't matter. Clicked Restore. Dragged the Source to Source (My 40gig with OS X86) Dragged the Destination to Destination (My 80 Gig with Darwin) Clicked the Copy button or whatever it's called. Put in my password. Waited 2 hours for the copy to finish. After it was done. Shutdown Made my 80gig drive the only one in the system. Turned it back on. Logged in. Disk Utility Repair Permissions. Installed iLife. All is good. Posted this on another board, but they appear to be down. Perhaps I'll post more details as I will be doing a buddies drive tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amorfeusz Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 Thanks for the tip - I tried doing something similar but from within Darwin and it didn't work out too well. Per your suggestion I used DiskUtility to restore, but actually used Deadmoos 6GB and another 12GB vmware that I had installed Darwin on. This should help out others who don't want to wipe out their other HD's as everything was done within VMware. Took about 10 minutes to copy - I skipped disabling any screensaves/power management. Now ready to dd the 12gb to my HD though I'll prob rar that up first to use instead of the old 6GB as a starting point for future installs/patches I think your post deserves Sticky status as it's a great and fast method for having a larger Max OS drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willgonz Posted August 22, 2005 Author Share Posted August 22, 2005 I have seen some cases where after rebooting after the clone the passwords don't work. Try rebooting again and see if that works. Otherwise start with -x log in logout and reboot and start normally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willgonz Posted August 23, 2005 Author Share Posted August 23, 2005 Sign off here if this method has worked for you. I have done four systems so far and they all have worked with this method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentOrange Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 I'm limited in this regard because Darwin won't touch my box (or visa versa). Won't boot off the CD at all, the cranky old {censored}. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octoploid Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 Sign off here if this method has worked for you. I have done four systems so far and they all have worked with this method. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thank you, your method works! It is important that you delete your old partition after you have successfully transfered it. My system would always use the original partiton as root until I deleted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonis Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 Thanks mate, I also have another way to enlarge the MAC OSX partition. Before I dd the vmware image, I boot into linux and use cfdisk to create two primary partitions with flag of "AF". then I install OSX86 on one of them. When it is installed, the other partition can be recognized as an empty volume. Just use Disk Utilities to erase all the data on that volume and it will be avaliable to use. Sonis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tho Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 This method worked for me, you rock willgonz!! I installed it on a Dell OptiPlex GX240 using deadmoo's image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flipsoft Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 I'm limited in this regard because Darwin won't touch my box (or visa versa). Won't boot off the CD at all, the cranky old hello. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Me too! Darwin gets to 'waiting for root device' and then nothing. I was using the darwin CD from http://www.opendarwin.org/downloads/8.0.1/...nx86-801.iso.gz is that the right one? EDIT: I put both the CDROM and the harddrive on the southbridge (blue) IDE connector on my motherboard and it installed perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ng12345 Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 this install method should be stickied it is one of the easiest and fastest ways to copy over the osx86 image only two amendments i would make 1. you do not need to install osx to a hard drive initially, you can use the disk utility restore function straight from vmware - to do this, mount the tiger image file as the primary hard drive and your physical drive (all partitions) as the secondary hard drive (this is the hard drvie for the os x install) - after doing this boot into os x using vmware (from within windows); os x should try to mount the drives in your physical drive - go to disk utility and go to the restore function and restore your image onto the partition of the physical hard drive - it will copy your files onto that hard drive partition, and you will be able to use all the space over the 6gb image; in addition, you can format your partition into the hFS+ filesystem using disk utility from within vmware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienbiker99 Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 do i need to install darwin on the other drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jegabla Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 this install method should be stickied it is one of the easiest and fastest ways to copy over the osx86 image only two amendments i would make 1. you do not need to install osx to a hard drive initially, you can use the disk utility restore function straight from vmware - to do this, mount the tiger image file as the primary hard drive and your physical drive (all partitions) as the secondary hard drive (this is the hard drvie for the os x install) - after doing this boot into os x using vmware (from within windows); os x should try to mount the drives in your physical drive - go to disk utility and go to the restore function and restore your image onto the partition of the physical hard drive - it will copy your files onto that hard drive partition, and you will be able to use all the space over the 6gb image; in addition, you can format your partition into the hFS+ filesystem using disk utility from within vmware <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm very interested in this method. Could you please elaborate more on it? 1. - Do you need to format (erase) using HFS+ (journaled) the destination partition before restoring the tiger drive to it? 2. - How are you supposed to make this partition bootable? Do you need to activate it? Can you dualboot after all this using chain0? 3. - Does the destination partition need to be in any spacific format like NTFS as required for other methods? Does it need to be primary? Is it better if it's Primary and unallocated? 4. - Will disk utility erase the MBR on the whole drive? Thanx for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
convert Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 Quick question... What version of VMWare do you guys use? I'm trying this with VMWare 5 Workstation. The version has an option to erase the destination and skip checksum. If I enable the "erase destination" checkbox, the copy process is much faster. I can restore my 6 Gb image in about 7-8 minutes. However, this method doesn't seem to work. When I reboot my machine, chain0 doesn't find the partition; thus, leaving me hanging in a Black Screen of Death. I didn't even get to the Darwin Loading screen or should I say the boot loader didn't even appear. My guess is that this method is doing a block copy so therefore; it won't work when expanding to a larger partition. I'll try this without enabling "erase destination" and see what happens. I just hate waiting 2-3 hours... but oh well.... Maybe it's the version I'm using. If anyone else has try this, please update here. I'll post an update later after the process has finished. One other thing that I have noticed in VMWare 5 Workstation is that when you add a physical hard drive, there is an advanced option that you can go into and enable "independt persistent" mode. I believe if you don't have this enabled then when your session is over, the drive will revert back to it's normal state. One more thing. Is it VMWare or the OS that seems to not understanding the HFS+ format? I'm running WinXP Pro and one would think that if you have a HFS+ format partition, you should be able to add to VMWare thru the physical hard drive option and be able to use it. One thing for sure though, you can add the partition but Windows is seeing it as a totally different format other than HFS+. Hence, when you launch OSX in VMWare, it doesn't recognize that the partitioni was already a HFS+ format. It then prompts you to initialize it. Is there a work around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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