Installing 10.3 under MOL

[Brian Ruth]

> The installer wants a disk with partition tables. MOL only presents
> the partition itself. One workaround is initializing the volume under
> OSX (running MOL). Then MacOS X will install an partition table
> as well as the volume itself. That is, e.g. /dev/hda7 will then 
> ontain a partition table as well as the HFS volume.
> 
> The drawback is that OSX without MOL might not be able
> to find a HFS volume partitioned in this way (encapsulated
> partition tables might not be supported). At least it
> won't be possible to boot from such a volume.
> 
> One can also address the problem by exporting the entire /dev/hda
> device to MOL (using -force and -whole). One problem here
> is that if /dev/hda contains a linux mounted partition then
> MOL might refuse to export it as read-write.

Thanks, Samuel!

I'm using an entire disc for the Mac stuff, so I think it'll be okay to export
the whole device to MOL - I'll give that a try. Otherwise, I think the other
solution should work, too - I'm using an IBM workstation which can't boot
OSX natively anyway.

Brian.