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dual boot Windows NT and Mac OS #49

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DanielM4tveev opened this issue Jan 4, 2025 · 7 comments
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dual boot Windows NT and Mac OS #49

DanielM4tveev opened this issue Jan 4, 2025 · 7 comments

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@DanielM4tveev
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DanielM4tveev commented Jan 4, 2025

I installed Windows NT on my iBook G4 (PowerBook 6,7), but when I try to install macos on a partition created via ARC and formatted via the disk utility, macos says that it is impossible to install macos on this disk, but it is very problematic to run macos 9 on this laptop because the mouse does not work in it

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Wack0 commented Jan 4, 2025

Are you using OSX 10.4.6 or higher? If so, probably fixed by 9d63635 (next mac99 release is planned for when I finish the NT USB driver...)

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Are you using OSX 10.4.6 or higher? If so, probably fixed by 9d63635 (next mac99 release is planned for when I finish the NT USB driver...)

Yes, I'm using Mac OS X 10.4.6, but I install it via a usb flash drive.

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Wack0 commented Jan 4, 2025

That'd be the cause of the issue. Without 9d63635 - OSX 10.4.6+ will not install.

You can sector edit the disk to remove the ISO "header" at 0x8000 if you're willing, otherwise, use an earlier version of OSX .

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well... then I'll try to delete the header at 0x8000. I'm waiting for the new mac99 release with new fixes and additions.

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That'd be the cause of the issue. Without 9d63635 - OSX 10.4.6+ will not install.

You can sector edit the disk to remove the ISO "header" at 0x8000 if you're willing, otherwise, use an earlier version of OSX .

By the way, I have an idea. At one point, I burned a dmg image with the mac os 10.5.8 installer onto a broken disk, and it was able to boot. So, what if the installed system is compressed into a dmg image and after installing windows, it is already deployed to the created partition?.. I think something should work out.

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Wack0 commented Jan 4, 2025

Writing a dmg image should work. It's just the 10.4.6+ installer that doesn't work.

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Yes, it worked. Windows NT 4.0 and Mac OS X 10.4.6 were installed.... However, unpacking the disk image took a very long time... I'll probably have to try playing with compression later.

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