On Sep 8, 2009, at 3:57 AM, Calla2 wrote: > Is there a way to verify that the Apple Partition Map was applied?
Boot the OS X installer CD, open Disk Utility and highlight the HD. Along the bottom of the window it will say "Partition Map Scheme:" with the type of partition map (Apple, GUID, Master Boot Record) following. > I've never used XPF, is it obvious/easy to figure out > how to not install XPF extensions? Yes. Download XPF 4.0 and run it from OS 9 with the OS X Install CD/ DVD mounted. You want to boot the Installation Disc using the OS 9 partition as the "helper". To do this, you may need to say you're "installing" onto the OS 9 partition, but this isn't the case, all you want to do is make sure XPF installs it's stuff onto the OS 9 partition and NOT the OS X partition you intend to install onto. Once the Installation Disc boots, you can select any partition you wish to install onto, and that installation will be "clean" (meaning "clean", NO XPF anything). The only XPF files will be "invisible" files installed onto whatever partition you selected as "helper" or "install onto" in the original selection. You can erase these also if you wish, but they do no harm to an OS 9 installation and in normal booting are never used. The ONLY bad side effect of using XPF to install a clean OS X partition is the fact that XPF uses parts of NVRAM that Apple Startup Disk uses. This makes eliminating XPF a little more difficult than you'd imagine. XPF has an "uninstall" feature that will remove all the XPF extensions from any partition, but it doesn't remove the invisible files, of which there are normally two. You should search for any invisible files with "XPF" or "XPostFacto" in the name and delete them. You'd also want to reset the PRAM & NVRAM to default state by zapping the PRAM with Cmd-Opt-P-R and resetting the NVRAM with Cmd-Opt-O-F followed by the commands "set-defaults<Return>" and "reset- all<Return>" where <Return> means hit the Return key and of course without the quotes. The reply should be "ok" to the 1st command and a restart to the 2nd command. After all this, you can use Apple Startup Disk again. I believe to use Apple Startup Disk with OS X you need the version from OS 9.2.2, but XPF sometime is a little finicky with 9.2.2 and really works best with OS 9.1. Hope this helps, good luck! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
