New OSX build for testing

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vasi
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Re: New OSX build for testing

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Ronald P. Regensburg wrote: Will the sparsebundle properties of the image be preserved when the volume is erased in OS9?
Yup! The guest OS doesn't even know what underlying block format the virtual disk uses: fixed size, sparse or VHD. Nothing you can do inside OS 9 will make a sparsebundle change into a fixed size disk.
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Re: New OSX build for testing

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I followed vasi's instructions, but sadly I couldn't install MacOS 9 on a sparsebundle image.
Error message as before. Curiously, it says that the error occurred when reading the "Big System Morsels" file (from the installer CD image, I assume), not when writing something.
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Re: New OSX build for testing

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systemseven wrote:I followed vasi's instructions, but sadly I couldn't install MacOS 9 on a sparsebundle image.
Could you zip up the sparsebundle and make it available to me?
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Re: New OSX build for testing

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I wonder if we should build some preconfigured sparsebundles of various sizes and make them available... actually, I think emendelson may have already done that with his all-in-one build.
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Re: New OSX build for testing

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vasi wrote:
systemseven wrote:I followed vasi's instructions, but sadly I couldn't install MacOS 9 on a sparsebundle image.
Could you zip up the sparsebundle and make it available to me?
Sure. I sent you a PM with the details.
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