Martijn Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 I just managed to expand the HFS+ partition with the Tiger-image. I'm now using it on a 80gb drive, with aprox 72gb free... Just 8 steps and 1 reboot... This is how I dit it: Step 1: - Get hold of 2 HD drives, one of atleast 6gb (temp-drive) and one on which you wan't the defenitive installation (target-drive). Step 2: - DD (form windows for example), the Tiger-VM-image to both drives and make them work... Step 3: Plug both drive's in you're system and boot up from the 'temp-drive' (by bios) Step 4: once in osx, open the disc-utility (applications->utilities) and make a 'drive-image' (one of the toolbar buttons), from the target-drive (you can't make an image of the drive you started with, but you can make an image from another drive, not in use, not mounted). Save the image file elsewhere (i did it on a SMB network-share for example). Not sure if you can save it on the temp drive-though (might also work, mine was to small unfortunately). Attention: Use the Image option, you need to make .dmg-file Step 5: Once the image file is done (can take a while), re-partition the target-drive (with the same tool), for example: 1 big partition and commit the changes. You'll see a new mounted drive with a lot of free space (and completly empty). Step 6: Restore the image on the target drive with the same disc-utility (use dragging)... Step 7: Open the 'startup-disc-tool' from 'system-settings' and select the target-drive as startupdrive. Step 8: Shut down (remove the temp-drive from the system) and boot. 'Look ma, 72gb of free space!' Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jno Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 Good work Will try thins when i get home! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-5950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruolez Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 What if you got a laptop and cannot connect 2 drives? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-6041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martijn Posted August 23, 2005 Author Share Posted August 23, 2005 What if you got a laptop and cannot connect 2 drives? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If you connect a firewire or usb drive, you can create the image to that location. It's the same, it will only go a bit slower... It Should work though... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-6083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerd of nerds Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 this is confirmed to work, did it a few days ago without the guide Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-6093 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ideasman Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 hell yeah! good work. nice and easy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-6262 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nessus Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 Has anyone made this work on a laptop using an external (say USB) HD? How would I go about booting OSX from a USB HD as in step 3? I suppose I'd need to cfdisk the new external to AF type as well (in between step 1 and 2)? More help would be appreciated, sorry to be dense? As compensation for your help, check out my thread on getting wireless! http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=1117&st=0 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-7115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 Nessus, I am doing the dd command to my USB drive and we'll see if Darwin has any clue on that. It is just an AF-flagged partition that I'm dd'ing an image to (like I did for my initial setup). But even though my BIOS can boot from USB stuff, I don't think Darwin is going to see it that early in the boot sequence. (and the first partition on that disk is NTFS and non-bootable too). Since one sentence is unclear... I am just seeing if that Chain0 file will notice the AF partition on my USB drive, although Chain0 will be on my 1st built-in ATA drive that has OS X on it already. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-7151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nessus Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 Nessus, I am doing the dd command to my USB drive and we'll see if Darwin has any clue on that. It is just an AF-flagged partition that I'm dd'ing an image to (like I did for my initial setup). But even though my BIOS can boot from USB stuff, I don't think Darwin is going to see it that early in the boot sequence. (and the first partition on that disk is NTFS and non-bootable too). Since one sentence is unclear... I am just seeing if that Chain0 file will notice the AF partition on my USB drive, although Chain0 will be on my 1st built-in ATA drive that has OS X on it already. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Great, please let me know what happens. First off, I'll have to check if my BIOS can even boot from the USB. Then the question of Darwin. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-7161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
highc Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 at new boot i get this error: "This Hardware configuration is not supported by Darwin/X86 (30)" how to fix this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-7206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 dd takes forever over usb2. I won't be able to report back until tomorrow mornin as it wasn't done by the time I was done at the office today. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-7215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prot Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 dd takes forever over usb2. I won't be able to report back until tomorrow mornin as it wasn't done by the time I was done at the office today. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> seems you are using USB 1.1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-7332 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 seems you are using USB 1.1 Might have been, I was doing it via a Knoppix Boot CD. But it was mouted as a USB2 Hard Drive it said. Still, it took over an hour (started it 1 hour before leaving work). But, I'll report back in the morning. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-7345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
moshem Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 at new boot i get this error: "This Hardware configuration is not supported by Darwin/X86 (30)" how to fix this? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> mine did too !!, did you find a solution ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-7403 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 Well, the boot loader doesn't look at the USB drive, so no idea. I think I'd somehow need some boot loader installed on the drive itself. (It was my backup drive, so the main partition is some huge NTFS one I was using just to backup files to). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-7523 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 I just ended up swapping hard drives in and out and then installing Darwin and using ditto (process described in another thread). The USB one would boot, but it kept wanting to run my existing install from the HD when I had it connected. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-7579 Share on other sites More sharing options...
highc Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 mine did too !!, did you find a solution ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nope! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-7637 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jb_ Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Used the method in the 1st post and it works great! The target drive is a WD Raptor on Intel ICH5R. Machine: P4 'C' Northwood 3.0ghz @ 3.4, Abit IC7-G motherboard (875 + ICH5R chipset), deadmoo native. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-9592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
setec Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Real quick, I am almost done DDing the second partition. First is done (6GB). Here is what I did. I have a 60GB harddrive in my laptop. I used Partition Magic 8 to trim my NTFS (XP) Partition down to just under 17GB. So, the rest is about 40GB. I used diskpart to "create partition primary size=6660 id=af" I then used diskpart to "create partition primary id=af" to use the remaining space. The 6GB one is the one I will eventually erase (the temp drive for now). Note: I am planning to save the drive image to a shared network drive. Going to follow the directions now. Hoping this works. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-9836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
setec Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 I got through Step 4, but I can't partition for Step 5. I am on a 60GB laptop harddrive. Partition1 - NTFS (XP) Partition2 - Temp working tiger-x86 (6GB) Partition3 - Working tiger-x86 drive (32GB) I have the image file saved on a network share. How can I proceed? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-9899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitz Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Followed this guide. Got to the point of restarting the system on the re-imaged disk with the larger partition. First boot got a "b0 error" before the bootloader appeared. Restarted and booted off the original 6Gb disk. Used Startup Disk control panel to change the startup disk to the re-imaged disk with the larger partition. Shut down. Removed original 6Gb drive. Started up......"This hardware configuration is not supported by Darwin/x86. (3)" Huh?! Where'd that come from? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-10478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
setec Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 I am at that point as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-11029 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSX Blows Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 Sweet Thanks Martijn your guide worked perfectly nice one Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-12282 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aduffbrew Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 at new boot i get this error: "This Hardware configuration is not supported by Darwin/X86 (30)" how to fix this? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I've read through this thread and I appologize if my question has already been answered. Did we ever find out what was causing this? I assume some of us are using the Dev DVD and others the "deadmoo" image. Add to that the introduction of various revisions and patches. Is there any correlation? I am running the "deadmoo" image and MAXXUSS' patch v0.4 on an HP e-PC 42 with a measily 1.7 GHz P4 (whatever the orginal P4 is) and 256MB PC-133 SDRAM. Yeah, I know.... but it runs pretty dang smooth for what I am now using it for... e-mail, word processing (Thanks MS Office 2004), Instant Messaging, and casual web browsing. To those who successfully moved Tiger-x86 to a larger partition, any of you do it using similar hardware and software setup? And while we're on the subject, any other tweeks I missed that apply to me? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-12765 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aduffbrew Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 OK, I tried. "This hardware configuration is not supported by Darwin/x86. (3)" This is exactly what I did. Maybe one of you gurus will see where I went wrong. 1. I don't have a network so I connected three HDDs. HD 01: tiger-x86 (bootable deadmoo image w/MAXXUSS v0.4 patch) HD 02: tiger-x86 (same as above but with all my apps, files, and customizations) HD 03: MacOS-x86 (partitioned in OSx86 and renamed) 2. I booted the system from HD 01. 3. Using 'Disk Utility' I clicked "restore" 4. I set 'Source' as HD 02 and 'Destination' as HD 03 5. I clicked "restore" and it transferred everything over 6. Using 'Startup Disc' in "System Preferences," I set HD 03 as my startup drive 7. I powered down, removed all but HD 03, reconfigured it as single/master & rebooted I'm using an HP e-PC 42 as my OSx86 machine. It's compact... no room for anything but a 3.5" HDD and a laptop style CD-ROM. My other computer is an incompatible Athlon XP so I borrowed a family member's Celeron based machine to do this little switcheroo. Any feedback would be helpful. I am lovin' this Mac thing but I am totally running out of space. I've nearly just purchased a Mac Mini out of frustration TWICE but that kind of defeats the purpose of this whole exercise. My computer needs are being met right now so investing in a new PC just before Microsoft and Apple release their new line of products seems a little counter productive. I still searching for an answer on this issue but if you already know, please post! Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/965-expanding-tiger-hfs-partion/#findComment-13038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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