Another annoyance

Andreas Schwab mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:57:14 +0200


"J. Blank" <jb@twu.net> writes:

|> Now I'm installing OS X... I tried using a partition on a drive (i.e.:
|> /dev/hdf4), but Mac OS X said that I could not install onto it because I
|> cannot boot off of it. So I made a large (6GB-- I am using jfs and can do
|> that) disk image. When I started MOL with it, I get:
|> 
|> ----> (disk_open) Opening /home/jb/mol/macosx.img: File too large
|> 
|> ...what gives? Why should MOL care if the file is larger than 2GB? It's
|> not like MOL is based on the ext2 sources ;)

Try compiling MOL with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64.

Andreas.

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