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Installing MacOS9 HDD drivers using terminal in OS X
macdougy:
Anybody doing a MacOS9Lives installation on unsupported hardware and too large of a harddrive knows the pain. Manage to get MacOS9Lives to boot off of the CD, but Drive Setup cannot see any partitions. OS X disk utility doesn't offer option because unsupported hardware. Attempt to drive face through brick to pacify.
I've seen whispers around the internet about "using scary terminal commands" to do this, and I wondered if anybody knows the sauce? If not, what might be some directions to start figuring that out?
And no, I don't have a natively OS9 compatible PPC mac to format the drive on, thanks for asking. :-[
EDIT FOR CLARITY:
I am trying to install MacOS9Lives on a FW800 Dual 1.25GHz PowerMac MDD with a 400GB HDD. I can boot MacOS9Lives CD and it can see the HDD, but not the partitions, since the Mac OS 9 drivers haven't been installed. OS X (10.4.6) installer disc (nor disc utility in installed copy of OS X) doesn't show me option to install the drivers when I use it since Mac OS 9 is not natively supported on that machine.
I don't have another PPC mac that natively supports Mac OS 9 at the moment, so I cannot easily reformat the disc / install the drivers that way. I've read online that one might be able to use terminal commands (I assume involving diskutil) to manually do this, but I haven't found what they might be yet, and I am wondering if anybody has the knowledge of how to do that?
DieHard:
--- Quote ---Manage to get MacOS9Lives to boot off of the CD, but Drive Setup cannot see any partitions. OS X disk utility doesn't offer option because unsupported hardware. Attempt to drive face through brick to pacify.
I've seen whispers around the internet about "using scary terminal commands" to do this, and I wondered if anybody knows the sauce? If not, what might be some directions to start figuring that out?
And no, I don't have a natively OS9 compatible PPC mac to format the drive on, thanks for asking. :-[
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I am so sorry, but I have read this about 3 times and I am totally unclear what you are asking...
Do you have a PPC mac that is NOT OS 9 compatible ? If so, what machine ?
Terminal commands... Are you talking about QEMU on a modern mac...
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,6042.0.html
Do you mean open firmware commands ?
We are very helpful here, but you are going to have to get a little more specific
macdougy:
--- Quote from: DieHard on October 28, 2022, 11:06:45 AM ---
--- Quote ---Manage to get MacOS9Lives to boot off of the CD, but Drive Setup cannot see any partitions. OS X disk utility doesn't offer option because unsupported hardware. Attempt to drive face through brick to pacify.
I've seen whispers around the internet about "using scary terminal commands" to do this, and I wondered if anybody knows the sauce? If not, what might be some directions to start figuring that out?
And no, I don't have a natively OS9 compatible PPC mac to format the drive on, thanks for asking. :-[
--- End quote ---
I am so sorry, but I have read this about 3 times and I am totally unclear what you are asking...
Do you have a PPC mac that is NOT OS 9 compatible ? If so, what machine ?
Terminal commands... Are you talking about QEMU on a modern mac...
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,6042.0.html
Do you mean open firmware commands ?
We are very helpful here, but you are going to have to get a little more specific
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I've updated the original post with all the details. Cheers!
DieHard:
--- Quote ---I am trying to install MacOS9Lives on a FW800 Dual 1.25GHz PowerMac MDD with a 400GB HDD. I can boot MacOS9Lives CD and it can see the HDD, but not the partitions, since the Mac OS 9 drivers haven't been installed. OS X (10.4.6) installer disc (nor disc utility in installed copy of OS X) doesn't show me option to install the drivers when I use it since Mac OS 9 is not natively supported on that machine.
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That is not correct. If you can delete/re-partition then... Try to setup OS9 First
--- Quote ---1. Start up the computer from a Mac OS 9 CD
2. Open Drive Setup, which is normally located at in the Utilities folder in the "Applications (Mac OS 9)" folder.
3. Select the disk that you wish to make available.
4. Choose Update Driver from the Functions menu This message appears:
"The new driver will not be available until you restart the computer."
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or...
Use a Leopard Disk (if you have one), from another member...
--- Quote ---This also multiplied the work involved as I had to use a Leopard installer disc for the formatting as apparently Tiger's would not allow me to select "install OS 9 drivers", but Leopard's did.
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IIO:
if you have a fw-800 or if your computer only has 10.5.x (where disc util started lacking te OS9 driver support), you can do it by deleting at least one of the volumes on the disk using -w
- find out which volume has which name
- unmount the chosen volume you want to delete using disc util
- then reformat using sudo newfs_hfs -w -J -b 512 -v name /dev/diskxxx
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