JumpingRick Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Hi guys. I read a lot over this forum, and looked at some videos on Youtube, but I'm still not able to install Mac OS X. Ok, first here's my specs: Dell Inspiron 1501 Intel Dual Core 1.667GHz - 4MO Cache 2GO RAM 120 GO HDD Here's what I've done. 1- Create a partition formatted in FAT32 (named MACOSX) 2- Create a 'swap' partition formatted in FAT32 (named SWAP) 3- Boot with JaS 10.4.8 AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 DVD. 4- At the moment where's I have to chose the destination for the install, I only see the DVD that's in my drive. 5- I took the diskutilities tool and select my partition (MACOSX). 6- I erased it and took the Mac Os X Extended format (journaled) 7- The processus goes on, but the partition still doesn't show in the selection box. It stills telling me that it's a FAT32 partion. That's where I am at this moment. I looked over the forum and I read it could be a problem of SATA HDD. Someone wrote that he put his HDD ATA in the BIOS. How could he did that ? I don't have any troubles to read, so if someone could juste gives me a hint, it would be appreciate. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96572-cant-select-an-installation-destination/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesomo Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Hmm... there could be a couple problems 1. It is a osx extended journal partition it is just telling you the original setting so just try to force an install. 2. Your partition is corrupt try repartitioning it. 3. Try just using the whole disk for installation then while in osx partition and then install xp or vista. It most likely is not your BIOS but if it is then hit f2 on boot and within the legacy devices it should be a fairly simple tweak. I'm no genius but being a mac user i am familiar with some of the glitches. contact me on this forum or my account Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96572-cant-select-an-installation-destination/#findComment-689746 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpingRick Posted March 31, 2008 Author Share Posted March 31, 2008 Thanks for the help. For the partition, it's hard for me to format my whole disk, install mac os, and then reinstall all my stuff. I should try once again to format it, we'll see, but I've already tried many times. For the BIOS, I've looked into my device, and didn't find any hints to help me to do that. I've searched on Google, didn't find something neither. Any others idea ? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96572-cant-select-an-installation-destination/#findComment-689789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesomo Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 What are you partitioning with? try a different format of the disk instead of fat 32 because in the end it will be os extended Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96572-cant-select-an-installation-destination/#findComment-689797 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpingRick Posted March 31, 2008 Author Share Posted March 31, 2008 Right now, my 120 HDD looks like this : C: --> 30GO --> Win XP --> NTFS D: --> 60GO --> Data --> NTFS E: --> 20GO --> MACOSX --> FAT 32 (where I want my installation) F: --> 10GO --> SWAP --> FAT 32 (I read that you need one) So, you're telling me to format my E: and F: partions in an other format, and maybe the installation program will see it ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96572-cant-select-an-installation-destination/#findComment-690268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesomo Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Well that and try deleting a partition and do this New partition (Windows 2000/XP/2003 method) You will need a 6 GB Partition for the OSX install. Most installs of Windows use the full drive under one partition. So you will need to free up space. There are many tools out there that can resize a partition (OSX will boot from the end of the drive, so no worries) like Partition Magic and the Linux-based GParted. Resize your partition so you have over 6.5 GB left at the end. Leave it completely blank for now (do not create a filesystem or partition of any kind). The diskpart utility included with Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 can create a suitable partition without booting into Linux. Run diskpart from Start, Run, "cmd". You can download a Windows 2000 version of this utility from here. DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ---------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 56 GB 0 B DISKPART> select disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. Extended partitions will not work, only primary partitions. If there are "Extended" and "Logical" partitions, they can be deleted and a primary partition can be created in their place. The logical partition deletes fine with diskpart, but trying to delete the extended partition (the container that holds logical partitions) in diskpart may result in this error : DISKPART> delete partition The selected partition may be neccessary to the operation of your computer, and may not be deleted. If this occurs, the logical partition can be deleted in Disk Management, which can be run by typing diskmgmt.msc in cmd, or for those that prefer the GUI : Right Click My Computer -> Manage -> then select Disk Management in the computer management console. After there is enough free space, proceed to create a primary partition of type 0xaf : DISKPART> create partition primary id=af DISKPART> list partition Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 32 GB 32 KB * Partition 2 Unknown 24 GB 32 GB DISKPART> exit R.B. If this doesn't work and you get an error similar to this : Can not create partition, then you can do it with DISKPART, by doing the following. DISKPART> Select disk 1 DISKPART> Select partition 2 DISKPART> Delete partition DISKPART> create partition primary id=af DISKPART> list partition Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 32 GB 32 KB * Partition 2 Unknown 24 GB 32 GB DISKPART> Exit If you wanted the partition to be only around 6.5 GB since that's all the Tiger image is, and you don't want a whole 40 GB HD gone to waste with a HFS+ filesystem that Windows can't read, use the "create" command with the size attribute like this (same as above but notice the Size attribute) : DISKPART> create partition primary size=6660 id=af Notice how diskpart says the type is "Unknown". Disk Management will show "Healthy (Unknown partition)" as well if you specified the type correctly and it will not show up as a drive letter under Windows. You are now ready to load this new partition with Apple's HFS+ disk image........ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96572-cant-select-an-installation-destination/#findComment-694053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpingRick Posted April 4, 2008 Author Share Posted April 4, 2008 Oh my god, it worked! Thank you very much for this post. The only problem that I have, Acronis OS Selector doesn't recognize it. It doesn't recognize XP neither. Very weird... So, if anyone has a clue for me, what's the best boot selector ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96572-cant-select-an-installation-destination/#findComment-695458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesomo Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 damn i didn't think that would work it was kinda a last resort I know I suck at helping but instead of using acronis when the bios is loading towards the end of it hit f8 and it should show bootable partitions if not try the gparted cd. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96572-cant-select-an-installation-destination/#findComment-696441 Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesomo Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Ok Im gonna update this If you can boot into leopard or tiger or whatever then You might wanna flag them as bootable if you can it's easy if not just tell me. I suck at helping but i'm here to help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96572-cant-select-an-installation-destination/#findComment-697868 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpingRick Posted April 22, 2008 Author Share Posted April 22, 2008 Well, you did great for me. Now, I only have a problem to boot through my partition. Acronis doesn't seem to find the MAC partition, so I can't boot on it. If you have 2 minutes to help me, it would be nice Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96572-cant-select-an-installation-destination/#findComment-718826 Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesomo Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 ok umm it should show xp as one of them and then says something about not being able to read others boot off one of the ones it says it can't read see what happens.(I use acronis and thats what it does.) if that does not work then ur partition is marked unbootable or something is wrong with ur bootloader. First try winGrub, if that doesn't work post again. Keep me updated Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96572-cant-select-an-installation-destination/#findComment-720262 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugra Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 awesomo this solution works for me.thank you Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/96572-cant-select-an-installation-destination/#findComment-1113305 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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