Hello friends, just downloaded the .iso to try it on my mini and i was impressed with the overall experience. Thanks to the mos team for bringing it!!!. The question i have is that i have a only partition with tiger on my system, and i want to know if is possible to repartition it without erasing the osx installation, as i don't want to lose my osx data. Also would want to know if it's possible to boot mos from a thumbdrive, and if performance would suffer a lot when booting from a usb drive, being it flash or a usb hd.
I think that in case i cannot repartition it i would have to install it on an external device and need to know if it is perfectly feasible to run well.
Thanks in advance!!!

You can resize partitions with Leopard or Ubuntu. It is not possible to boot MorphOS from USB, it has to be installed on the internal hard drive.

[ Edited by jacadcaps on 2009/10/14 16:22 ]

Is still possible with tiger?. i don't have leopard in this machine.

Google tells that diskutil has got the resizeVolume option since 10.4.6 version of the OSX.

Ok, i boot with my osx disc and reach the partitioning utility, and it can create partitions, but i don't know if it retain my previous osx install or if it will wipe it out. Anyone with a existing osx install on his mac has installed morphos keeping the osx install?
Thanks in advance!!!

Yes you can keep your install, but I think you must use 10.5 to do it. I'd recomend you get superduper and backup your OSX install (its free) and then wipe out the drive, create the partitions like jaca shows in his guide, then restore your OS X backup, followed by completing the MOS install as shown in the guide. Its real easy to get working with some patience.

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From my previous post in the "MorphOS2.4 issues" thread:

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Google is a starting point only...

[ Edited by boot_wb on 2009/10/15 16:45 ]

For backup my osx install, i will need an exavt space hd to put it on, or is only a mirror of the apps installed like time machine?. If it's the last case, then the size should be smaller.
I will check it out.
Thanks acill, will try the program you suggests.!!!

P.D: I tried with a leopard install disk from a macbook but it doesn't allow me to resize the drive.


[ Edited by _ThEcRoW on 2009/10/15 17:17 ]

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That is strange, I used my Leopard install disk from my MacBook to resize my partition and I had no trouble with that part of my backup plans.

@_ThEcRoW

Please see the updated dualboot guide. Hope it helps.

@amigadave
You resized with leopard disk?. I booted with the leopard disks of my brother's macbook(an alu intel), and it refused to let me do the job, infact the option was greyed out.

@jacadaps
There is a updated installation scheme? is it where the old was?

Well read the new instructions and am downloading the ubuntu iso for trying to resizing with it. Also, i noticed in instructions that there is a 128mb partition. Is it used for swap on morphos? is neccesary? could bring problems not to make it?
Thanks in advance!!!

MorphOS doesn't have swap. The 128MB partitions are required for padding by OSX. It's best not to touch them.

how long is the gparted HD shrinkage supposed to take? I've been waiting 2.5hrs now but all i see is the applying pending operations status bar sliding back and forth and 0 of 3 operations completed. Did I do something wrong perhaps?

there is also a check file sys under details for errors on the mac partition

disregard it went through, and on to the next step of the long awaited install of Morphos

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2009/10/16 21:37 ]

Hehe I jwiped it out (osx), wont use it anyway now.. Have been a very smooth install and start, hope many people will get a mac mini and test Morphos now !!

[ Edited by kriz on 2009/10/17 6:22 ]

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You probably didn't uncheck the Round to cylinders in all partition windows. Since you didn't, GParted decided to move your existing OSX partition by a few MB. But it's also possible that your data was so fragmented that GParted had to move it around a lot to make room.

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I unchecked it but i guess i had alot of stuff on it

Faaaaabbb! help!
can't get mame going it complains of not having guigfx, but it is installed
i just have to be able to try this v2.4 on macmini

found them disregard again!


hey guys 7secs boot time after the os selection screen is insane!@!

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2009/10/17 11:27 ]

When i'm to partition using gparted, i shrinked the partition and left 10gb for mos, then proceed to create the new hfs partition of 64mb, but then the big partition for morphos keep unallocated, and if i try to create new i can only create a hfs(not hfs+), and in order to have the full space it has to be allocated, because as primary, it only allow me 2gb.
Am i doing anything wrong?. Is that correct to let the partitions as i commented?(1 64mb partition hfs and the 9.9xxx partition as extended with hfs?
Thanks in advance!!!

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Read the PDF again. I specifically wrote to select 'unformatted' in the File system selector for the big MorphOS partition.

@Xyphoid

I should have gotten rid of this guigfx a long time ago.
Anyway, command line mode also works in case GUI doesn't, FYI. :)

I by mistake don't uncheck the Round to clilinders checkbox. will it trash the osx partition, or simply will take long to make changes?

All done and working flawlessly. It's simply faaaaast!!!
Thanks for the help guys!

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@ Fab

can't get 2player mode going tried quick set-up and mame config but nothing on two player


actually, got it going, j1 plays 2nd player and vice versa but v.113 seems the best, with my rom set. no 3p and 4player support on that ver. though, and the "special 3/4player ver .121" the roms don't work any idea? the roms are present, but maybe an executable issue?

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2009/10/17 17:37 ]

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2009/10/17 17:51 ]

You need a ROM Set matching as much as possible the MAME version, of course, since they can be redumped in the meanwhile. That's not an "executable issue". :)