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PostPosted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 12:37 am 
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I've found a solution to our problem of using Panther DVD ISOs to do an install. I read a bug report at SF saying that PearPC only supports CD images up to 2GB, and this ISO is over 4 GB. So I wrote a little java program to pad out the image to a multiple of 516096 bytes and told the config file it is a HD, not a CD. It booted up and now I'm in the installer!!

So I hope this helps some of you out! I'm happy right now :D


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 1:14 am 
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Fantastic! I vote this be moved to the FAQ right away! :)


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 1:26 am 
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When my desktop has some CPU power to spare I'll post the java app, it's really short.


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 1:31 am 
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once the java app is posted and ran and proven to resolve the issue with will be moved promptly to the FAQ's. Till then I assume it is specualtion.


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Code:
import java.io.*;
public class Test {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    File f = new File("pantherDVD1.iso");
    long len = f.length();
    System.out.println("Length was " + len);

    RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(f, "rw");
    raf.seek(len);
    while (len % 516096 != 0) {
      len++;
      raf.write((byte)0);
    }
    System.out.println("Length is now " + len);

    raf.close();
  }
}


It works. I ran that on my DVD ISO ripped using "Save Track..." in Nero and changed my config file line to make it be treated as a HD. I already started a thread
http://www.emaculation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1622
about the problem I was getting using the ISO as a CD image. With this fix, I don't get that error and my install is now ~ 1/2 done.


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 2:02 am 
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When it is completed I will move it to the FAQ's


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I'm going to bed as soon as it gets to the point where it reboots. In the morning I'll finish the setup and report back.


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 10:07 am 
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OK it all went well. I successfully booted into OS X after doing the partition reordering. Even though this DVD-as-a-HD was still the slave device, it got the disk0 ID when I booted into single user mode to run pdisk, so instead of editing disk0 I had to edit disk1.

So today I'm going to try and get networking running,


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 6:39 pm 
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Well very good mrastudent I'm gonna call this thread completed


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Great , job..It think the problem is fixed for DVD OSX Discs...:D


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PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 10:01 am 
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Anywhere I can download thins little app ?


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PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 4:26 pm 
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Hobbes wrote:
Anywhere I can download thins little app ?

You don't need it, look:
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- support for DVD-Drives

Just download a recent 0.4pre build.


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:20 pm 
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Hy i have new panther dvd iso 2.383 gig and stil can't get working with your path.

got same error massage JITC Warning, program exception: 00080000 002f7362

and on ppc window says that /etc/mach_init test fails and error nr13.

any ideas.
thanks.


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