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 Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:48 am Post subject: mol install on disk image |
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I created a disk image
| Code: | | $ dd if=/dev/zero of=macos.img bs=1048576 count=4096 |
I'm running the installer for OS X and am wondering what to do about selecting a destination drive. My disk image shows up fine but I get a message saying "You cannot Install Mac OS X on this without changing your install settings. Click Options to change settings. You must erase this disk before installing because it is a Mac OS Standard format disk." So basically clicking options gives me an opportunity to erase and format as Mac OS Extended. This is scary so I'm asking for advice here before proceeding. I don't want to mess up any of my linux partitions. Did the dd command create an image so that I can proceed to letting the OS X installer format or will this wreck my linux?
I wouldn't be installing MOL but I just got an iPod and banshee won't import a darn cd. An error message says could not link pipeline elements... whatever that means. I hope to only use linux as I have no current need for MOL aside from my ipod issues. So if anyone could help me figure out what's going on with banshee that would actually be more helpful to me than fixing MOL. Thanks.
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JoseJX
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| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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I like grip for cd ripping, try that.
As for the dd command, you specified that you wanted to write a stream of 0's into a file named macos.img. As long as you specify the image file as your disk in MOL, there should be no problem formatting the image.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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So what happened to my filesystem after I ran the dd command? I'm thinking the disk image I created is treated as a 4 gig file in my current filesystem no differently than any other file, like a video or something. By having the OS X installer format the disk image, is it creating a filesystem on the disk image while that image is in its own filesystem (the filesystem of my home directory, reiserfs)? So there are sort of two filesystems in one area?
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| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, you created a 4GB file in your current filesystem that's no different from any other file. MOL will write to this file using a framework that makes the virtual system think it's a disk instead of a file. Don't think of it as two filesystems in one area, think of it as a bit perfect copy of what a real hard disk would look like, stored in a file on your linux machine.
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