My Mac x86 Issues

[EddieK]

Hey guys!

 

I've been the Mac OS X Intel stuff very closely. A few days ago, I decided it was time to put together an OS X computer. The computer I am working on now is using a Ubuntu Live CD, and it has OS X on it.

 

My OS X (10.4.1) is very unstable. I talked to my friend with a PowerPC and she said I should have at least 10.4.3, and that she had issues with 10.4.1 (so I have confirmed this is Mac OS, not my Intel stuff).

 

I downloaded the 10.4.3 patch from the torrent, burned it on a CD and tried to run the installation wizard. There wasn't enough space. At that point, I learned I only had 6GB of space.

 

I followed the UNEASYsilence OS X guide, and removed the TPM files per the guide at http://osx86.theplaceforitall.com.

 

My system is running a 200GB Seagate hard drive, and a Celeron 1.8 GHz processor (SSE2 only). I am a former user of SuSE Linux and Red Hat Linux, so I am familiar with *NIX-type shells.

 

I would like to gain my full 200GB space, so I can upgrade my OS X. I have tried several suggestions, such as having 2 partitions (didn't work for the patch), and using GNU parted. Parted says the maximum my drive can handle is 6GB for that partition:

 

(parted) print

Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-190782.210 megabytes

Disk label type: msdos

Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags

1 0.000 6143.484 primary boot

 

I don't know why it says "msdos," but that should be okay.

 

Any help would be grately appreciated.

 

Thank you,

 

Eddie