Amazondani Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 @ liapple This 2.2 GB is the space to store the ghost image? or to realy write the image onto?? What i meant if if i can restore this Ghost image to a 6 Gb partition, for example... Any one tryed this?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-60637 Share on other sites More sharing options...
liapple Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 sorry Amazondani I didn't try myself either - I just think 22 GB doesn't sound realistic... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-60665 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrunix Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 @atrunix So there's no way installing the image without having installed 10.4.3 before? Is it not possible to make a new partition with partition magic and to configure dual booting with boot magic for example?? @amazondani I suppose you need 2,2 GB since the size of the image is only 1 GB What I said is that on my dual boot PC I just restored the Ghost file over my 10.4.3 partition. As it works perfect with no patching requirements, it was quite enough for me waiting the end of 10.4.4 DVD install downloading through torrent. Plus : you need really 23 Go free disk space partition! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-60684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
liapple Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 @ Amazondani: I'm sorry!! Thanks to antrunix - it seems you really tried a lot! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-60714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazondani Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 So i think i'll have to erase all my hardisk, to sse if this works... And, have any one sucssesfuly booted 10.4.4 on a banias CPU in a centrino system??? And this image alredy has the IOATA , PS2 and AC97 Kext's??? Any help about these questions would be well come... Thanks!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-60719 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrunix Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 @antrunix So there's no way installing the image without having installed 10.4.3 before? You'd better wait for Mac osx86 10.4.4 Install DVD to be downloaded and tested since You do NOT need 10.4.3 pre-installed for this iso to be usable : Macosx861044InstallDVD1605402.Demonoid.com.torrent Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-60740 Share on other sites More sharing options...
liapple Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 merci beaucoup antrunix :pirate2: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-60803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsk5 Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Is it possible to shrink the partition after it is restored on to the hard drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-60990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrunix Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Is it possible to shrink the partition after it is restored on to the hard drive? Dont use Disk Utility at all. It will set it up for EFI. Use a *nix Boot disk to set it to AF, or use a 10.4.3 or 10.4.1 Installation to set the partition's up. Disk Utility in 10.4.4, on this DVD, is messed up. Do not use it. Source : Demonoid Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-61039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ampTK Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 My question is, can I install this image on a larger partion? Will it screw up the partition? I did something similar but with Disk Utility and a Bootable OS X DVD and worked fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-61106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Ghost can restore partition images when it understands the file system - that is, restore to a partition smaller than the origin, but at least as big as the data requires. Ghost hasn't a clue what is and what isn't data on an OS X drive. Therefore, the best method is to have 22.3 (more or less) GB free on your hard drive, and when restoring the 10.4.4 image there, tell ghost to restore to a new partition it will create using that free space. Therefore the restored 10.4.4 volume will be 22gb, but the data occupies maybe 3gb worth of it. I don't know if there are partition resizing utilities that work with OSx86, to be honest - most are bootable PPC programs and very hazardous in and of themselves. I'd recommend instead doing the ghost restore to the 22gb space, using Disk Utility (off a 10.4.3 boot) to make a DMG of the 10.4.4, then you can delete the partition (under windows please! Disk Util is nasty on NTFS partitions). In XP, then you create a parition of the size you want (NTFS is ok, FAT also ok), then in 10.4.3, erase that partition making it OS X Journaled, then use the restore function to restore the DMG to that fresh partition. Pshew. Or yeah wait for the 10.4.4 patcher that makes it work as a bootable install DVD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-61115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
calmesal Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 I have a very odd problem with GHOST! I made an imge of my OSX10.4.3, in order to keep the the image file as small as possible i made the partision just 4GB. Then I made a bigger partsion 20GB, when I restored the image, OSX report the correct size, but the free space+used space is exactly the same mean 4GB. How can that be fixet? Diskutil can't fixed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-61440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RHOS Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 OK, I put the image on an extra drive and it boots and stuff, but my network card doesn't seem to be working, when I boot to 10.4.3 it works just fine. I tried repairing and verifying permissions on the disk. So the question is how do I get it working? and if the answer is to copy over the kext file/s which ones? and how? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-62680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared Kipe Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Off topic, but is everyone elses forum only showing one or two posts and making you click links to every other one? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-62954 Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomist Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 So pretty weird. I have a Toshiba Tecra A4 laptop. Has the 915 chipset and gme900 video and all the nice stuff. I can't get the installer disk to boot so I tried the ghost. Ghosted it and worked. It just wouldnt boot. Now if I use the boot cd that I ghosted it from and say "Start Windows" then os X boots. It boots all the way to the blue screen then hangs. Now totally out of random the 2nd time I booted it, it went right into the os. And damn was it fast. Maybe 15 seconds to boo. Video was QE enables. Well I closed the lid, it went to sleep and never came back. Now I can't boot it into OS X anymore. Bye the way it booted just stock without changing any files. Will try to replace the files later and see if that helps to get it booted again. (sse2 patch). As this is a centrino. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-63081 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackyyy Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Hi, I'm trying the ghost image out... Athlon64 3500+ (Venice) -> SSE3 A8N-SLI Premium I restored it to an empty 30GB IDE HD, went fine. But when I try to boot it, I get the first apple loading screen and then a : "launchd : com.apple.nibindd exited abnormally : segmentation fault Respawning too quicly! throttling" 10 tries and I finally get a "too many failures in succession" What's wrong ? Should I be able to boot the GUI ? Any ideas on how to fix this ? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-64885 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdxxx Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 This image is for an INTEL only processor Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-64895 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackyyy Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Right, thanks. But is it what's acutally creating the problem I quoted ? Should I still be able to apply the AMD processor patch ? I mean, could I acutally fix what I've got to make it work or would it be better to go the standard way (DVD + patches) ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-64901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdxxx Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 You can change the mach_kernel for AMD, but you will need to be able to write to the new partition -- thus you will need to have another working OS X install to work from! I did this working from an existing 10.4.3 install. There are issues with restoring proper file permissions, etc. You could try TransMac to work on it from Windows. But this gets a little complicated. Just install the 10.4.3 Jas version first. From there, all else is much easier. 10.4.3 works well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-66875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffC Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 Hello everyone. Works like a charm except.... My screen resolution is crappy and I can't hardly see what is on the screen any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-67480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxtobyd Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 All works but NIC, get msg (45: SystemStarter)tfp: failed on 0: anyone any ideas???? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-67859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
insertnamehere Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 hello, I ghosted the image on to my hard drive fine but when i boot it also hangs at the blue screen, I'm going to go try a couple more times though, just to see if i can get results like atomist's. (I'm running a pentium m 1.73ghz with nx and pae) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-68536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxtobyd Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 try using boot magic to set the OSX partition to be the main boot partition, found the app on Hendri Boot CD, app called PQBoot.exe, it worked a treat.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-68543 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceman Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 This is what i did to install the Symantec / Norton Ghost image (*.GHO) Downloaded Hirens boot cd I used UltraISO to convert the Hirens Boot CD image (*.iso) to a DVD image. I added the Mac OS 10.4.4 ghost image to the iso, and then saved it. as a new image called (OSX_hiren.iso) I created a new virtual machine in vmware 5.5, selected other for the machine type. I made the hdd image 23GB and make sure you DEselect allocate diskspace now. (The actual allocated space will be under 4GB once you restor the GHO image ) Now edit the vmware machine and select the OSX_hiren.iso as the cdrom drive. Boot the virtual machine, select hirens boot cd when it asks you. Then run GHOST. Restor the image to the vmware disk. After this completes reboot the vmware machine and it boots into a perfect osX install. from here you can convert it to a backup image to install locally. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-69011 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceman Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 Just updated it to 10.4.5 including the Security Update 2006-001. Both working 100% on vmware. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9461-install-1044-using-partition-image/page/2/#findComment-69150 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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