On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 02:00:51PM +0100, Nicolas Bertolissio wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install MOL with Mac OS X on my Titanium G4, the reason is > my employer gave me a Palm Tungsten T3 but it's too new so I cannot > synchronise it and I need Mac OS... > > I have no free partition to create a HFS+ volume, I removed all that was > related to Mac OS when I got the PowerBook. > > I have an up to date Sarge with: > kernel-image 2.4.22-1.1 > mol 0.9.69+20031019-6 > mol-modules-2.4.22-powerpc 0.9.69+20031019-1 > mol-drivers-linux 0.9.69+20030408-1 > mol-drivers-macosx 0.9.69+20031019-1 > > So I have created a 3GB file with (home/ has an ext3 filesystem): > dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/mol/macosx bs=3k count=1M > This file is not mounted when I try to start MOL. > > I've added the following line after the CDROM blkdev: definition in > /etc/mol/molrc.osx: > blkdev: /home/mol/macosx -rw -force > and I've commented the whole 'ifempty' block after it. > > I run as root, with the install CD of Mac OS X 10.2 in the driver: > startmol --oxs --cdboot > > It starts well and I get the Mac OS X install utility, but the Disk > Utility shows a disk with 0 byte capacity instead of the expected 3GB. > > I've got the following error on the console when MOL mounts the disks: > ----- MOL console > <No SCSI Device> > > CD /dev/cdrom CDROM <read-only> ------ BOOT1 > fstat: Value too large for defined data type > fstat: Value too large for defiend data type > Disk /home/mol/maco.. <rw> ------ > ----- MOL console > > How can I find which value is too large and what the maximum value is? >
Hi Nicolas, you need to create a filesystem on the file. Use 'hformat <file>' to do this. The hformat binary is in the hfsutils-package. > > Nicolas Bertolissio > Joe
